This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female US district attorney and traveling detective who found the missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire New York Police Department had given up.
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective, and first woman US district attorney who turned her back on New York society life to become one of the nation’s greatest crime fighters during an era when women were still not allowed to vote. After agreeing to take the sensational case of missing eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled detective Julius J. Kron, navigated a dangerous web of secret boyfriends, two-faced cops, underground tunnels, rumors of white slavery, and a mysterious pale man, in a desperate race against time.
Brad Ricca’s Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman whom the press nicknamed after fiction’s greatest detective. Her poignant story reveals important clues about missing girls, the media, and the real truth of crime stories.
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"Grace Humiston is a lawyer turned detective who solves the case of the Ruth Cruger a missing young woman, one among hundreds who disappears in New York. The plot depicts Grace’s struggle in being the only female in her night school law class and then facing the macho police department and trying to convince them of Ruth’s innocence.
It is well narrated but the second part focuses too much on the other male police officers and at times appears repetitive.
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CF Reviews (4 out of 5 stars)