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Sherlock Holmes is bored between cases at 221B Baker Street. So when King Oskar II of Sweden-who has heard of the discovery of the Kensington Rune Stone by a farmer in Minnesota-asks to engage his services, Holmes jumps at the chance to decipher the runes and determine whether the find…
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When I first heard about the Sherlock Holmes in Minnesota series, I was not only intrigued, but also curious to see how Holmes and Watson would do in a very different environment. I have to say they did very well.
I enjoyed this book partly because I like stories featuring Holmes and partly because it weaves a fictional mystery around a real event, the discovery of a rune stone in a field in Minnesota in the late 1800s. I’ve been to the museum dedicated to the Kensington Rune Stone and read about the controversy.
It was interesting to see how…
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