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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  Cover Image E-book E-book

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

Ricca, Brad (author.).

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.

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  • ISBN: 9781466883659
  • ISBN: 1466883650
  • ISBN: 9781250072245
  • ISBN: 1250072247
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (viii, 436 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
  • Edition: First Edition.
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-418) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Humiston, Grace (Mary Grace) -- 1869-1948
Women private investigators -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
Women lawyers -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
Missing persons -- Investigation -- New York (State) -- New York -- Case studies
Genre: Electronic books.

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