Research Catalog

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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Details

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

• Humiston, Grace 1869-1948
• Missing persons > Investigation > New York > Case studies
• Women lawyers > New York > Case studies
• Women private investigators > New York > Case studies

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