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- Title
- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes : the true story of New York's City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation / Brad Ricca.
- Author
- Ricca, Brad
- Publication
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
- ©2016
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Text | Request in advance | HV8083.H86 R53 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- viii, 436 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Presents the true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- True crime stories
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- True detective -- The missing skater -- The coroner's cabinet -- The Heatherbloom girl -- These strange, little cases -- Army of the vanished -- The mysterious island of Sunny Side -- The giant and the chair -- The Manhunter of Harlem -- The pale man -- A doorway to the underworld -- A second guess -- The pointed finger -- The man who laughs -- The sliding number -- Mrs. Sherlock Holmes -- The marked neck -- Her last bow -- Army of one -- The assassin strikes -- The invisible places -- The witnesses' revenge -- Her dark shepherd -- Epilogue.
- ISBN
- 9781250072245
- 1250072247
- 9781466883659 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2016036711
- OCLC
- 947812470
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library