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

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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 / Brad Ricca.

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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250072245
Physical Description: viii, 436 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: First Edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Copyright: ©2016.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [417]-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.