Start gifting
Libro.fm for Business
Start a membership, get two free audiobooks
Almost ready!
In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.
Log in Create account
Shop the sale
In celebration of Independent Bookstore Day, shop our limited-time sale on bestselling audiobooks from April 22nd-28th. Don’t miss out—purchases support your local bookstore!
Shop nowThis audiobook uses AI narration.
We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.
Learn moreIn the summer of 1994, a workman at the historic mansion of railroad baron James J. Hill in St. Paul, Minnesota, stumbles on a long-hidden wall safe. When experts arrive to open the safe and examine its contents, they make an astonishing discovery. There, inside, is a handwritten manuscript bearing the signature of John H. Watson, MD. The manuscript contains the story of how Sherlock Holmes and Watson traveled to Minnesota to track a murderous arsonist—known only as the Red Demon—who is threatening both Hill and his Great Northern Railway.
Set against the backdrop of the real, devastating Hinckley forest fire of 1894, Sherlock Holmes and the Red Demon is the tense and atmospheric first novel in Larry Millett’s classic series of adventures that brought Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson to Minnesota.
Larry Millett was a reporter and critic for the St. Paul Pioneer Press for thirty years. He is the author of more than a dozen books, including a mystery series featuring Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota.
Steve Hendrickson has been a professional actor for over thirty years. A graduate of Yale School of Drama, he has appeared in theaters across the country. His audio projects include Archibald Finch and the Lost Witches and The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant, among others.
Reviews
“One of the best Holmeses since the originals.”
“An eminently credible adventure for fans of the magnificent consulting detective.”
“The real and devastating Hinckley, Minnesota, fire of 1894 serves as the historical backdrop…[and] the final duel between Holmes and the Red Demon on a burning trestle is gripping.”
“Narrator Steve Hendrickson deftly captures the tone of this story, based on a real 1894 event…Millett’s characters are wonderful eccentrics who come alive in Hendrickson’s lively presentation. Most entertaining is his rendering of the good-natured sparring between Holmes and Watson as they ‘go native’ in dress and speech. When they close in on the perpetrator, they must visit Mother Mary’s brothel, which is Hendrickson’s finest moment. The closing battle between Holmes and the Red Demon on a railroad trestle offers listeners a delicious sense of déjà vu.”
“Not only is his Minnesota history excellent, but his history of Sherlock Holmes and his adventures is remarkable. A classic mystery.”
Expand reviews