Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier), France, 1804–66, Inspecteur privé des travaux publics, Plate 13 from “Les Toquades,” 1858, Lithograph, Gift of funds from John E. Andrus III, 2004.150.13

The Singular Case of Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota

Sherlock Holmes made quite a mark in Minnesota. Hear about how Holmes and his faithful companion, Dr. John Watson, first came to the state in 1894 and later returned for six other adventures, culminating in the soon-to-be published case of the Eisendorf Enigma. And explore how the great detective remains very much a presence in Minnesota today via the Sherlock Holmes Collections at the University of Minnesota Libraries. With more than 60,000 items, the collections constitute the world’s largest repository of material related to Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Talk followed by a booksigning.

Larry Millett is a journalist, architectural historian, and mystery novelist based in St. Paul. He is the author of eight novels featuring Sherlock Holmes. His latest, Sherlock Holmes and the Eisendorf Enigma, will be published by the University of Minnesota Press in spring 2017. His latest nonfiction book, Minnesota Modern: Architecture and Life at Midcentury (2015), won a 2016 Minnesota Book Award.

Tim Johnson is curator of Special Collections & Rare Books and the E. W. McDiarmid Curator of the Sherlock Holmes Collections for the University of Minnesota Libraries.

$10, $5 Mia members, free for members of the Library Affinity Group

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Paul Gavarni (Sulpice-Guillaume Chevalier), France, 1804–66, Inspecteur privé des travaux publics, Plate 13 from “Les Toquades,” 1858, Lithograph, Gift of funds from John E. Andrus III, 2004.150.13