Sherlock Holmes and the Ice Palace Murders by Larry Millett - 1998

New York: Viking Press, 1998. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING PER NUMBER LINE. AS NEW/AS NEW. Pristine UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET. HATFIELD BOOKS AND MEMORABILIA, a FIVE STAR SELLER, presents SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE ICE PALACE MURDERS. Larry Millett extends the canon of Sherlock Holmes mysteries to the American Midwest of the 1890's. "Millett has Arthur Conan Doyle's style and manner nailed down tighter than a spike on a James J. Hill railroad tie." (Minneapolis Star Tribune). 6 1/4" x 9 1/4", 320 pages, accompanied by unclipped dust jacket. Overall book is As New, with an As New dust jacket. FIRST EDITION THUS, FIRST PRINTING VIA NUMBER LINE. Cover has quarter Christmas red cloth on gray boards, with particulars in silver gilt on spine only. Dust Jacket is silver paper with eery decrepit building illustrated on front, and particulars in blue and white; spine is dark blue with particulars in white; back is silver with reviews for the new Holmes concept, and illustration of the modern St. Paul skyline, both in "icy" white.