A psychological mystery centered on the murder of two showgirls in 1930s St. Paul, Minnesota. A man is arrested and everything points to his guilt, but Lieutenant Horner is convinced the man is innocent. By the author of In the Deep Midwinter.

Rushmore McKenzie, a retired St. Paul policeman and unexpected millionaire, often works as an unlicensed P.I., doing favors as it suits him. When graduate students Ivy Flynn and Josh Berglund show up with a story about $8 million in missing stolen gold from the '30s, McKenzie is intrigued. But they aren't the only ones looking. So are a couple of two-bit thugs, a woman named Heavenly, a local big-wig, and others. When Berglund is shot dead outside...

Sherlock Holmes runs into competition from an American private eye, Shadwell Rafferty on a visit to 1896 Minnesota. Both men are trying to solve a murder during the winter carnival in St. Paul, its victim a wealthy man whose head was found in a block of ice.

"F. Scott Fitzgerald stands as one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century. His biographers all note the importance of his boyhood in St. Paul, where he gained his sensitivity about wealth and position - later made evident in such classics as The Great Gatsby and Tender Is the Night. This collection brings together the best of Fitzgerald's St. Paul stories, some virtually unknown, others classics of short fiction."--Jacket....