Mrs. Sherlock Holmes the true story of New York City's greatest female detective and the 1917 missing girl case that captivated a nation

Ricca, Brad, author.

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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.

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Humiston, Grace (Mary Grace), 1869-1948

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ISBN:

9781410499554
1410499553

Edition:

Large print edition

Description:

681 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

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

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2017001148

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2131157

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