Which newspaper that served the Twin Cities metropolitan area employed a man who also wrote a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries?
Larry Millett Larry Millett (born 1947 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American journalist and author. He is the former (retired 2002) architectural critic for the "St. Paul Pioneer Press", a daily newspaper in St. Paul, Minnesota, and the author of several books on the history of architecture in Minnesota. He has also written a series of Sherlock Holmes mysteries set in the United States and Minnesota in the 1890s. The books feature the character Shadwell Rafferty, who assists Holmes in his American investigations.
Laurence Shames Laurence Shames is best known for his series of comic mysteries, all set in Key West, Florida. One of his most popular books, however, "Bad Twin", was written under the pseudonym Gary Troup, in a cross promotion between publisher Hyperion and ABC, the network which produced the TV series, "Lost". In "Lost", Troup was a fictional character who was presumed dead in the airline crash that was the basis for the TV series, and he left a manuscript behind, leading viewers of the series to buy the book to find clues to the mysteries of "Lost". Shames was the ghostwriter for the bestseller, "Boss of Bosses", and was the Ethics columnist for "Esquire".