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Jan 3, 2017 · Article is about Grace Humiston, private investigator and uncovering of mysterious death of Ruth Cruger who went missing in NY City. January 2017, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes by Brad Ricca who wrote the novel based on true stories of New York City in 1917 era with prologue to show the background of World War One 1914-1918 and Flu epidemic of 1918.
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Mary Grace Quackenbos Humiston (née Winterton) (1869–1948) was the first female Special Assistant United States Attorney. [1] She was a graduate of the New York University School of Law and was a leader in exposing peonage in the American South. She was also known for a short time as "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes", starting with her work solving the ...
Jan 3, 2017 · Brad Ricca. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the incredible true life story of Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York lawyer and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917. Grace was an amazing lawyer and traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing these professions.
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In the literary tradition of In Cold Blood and The Devil in the White City, Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a true crime tale told in spine-tingling fashion.. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes tells the incredible true life story of Mrs. Grace Humiston, the New York lawyer and detective who solved the famous cold case of Ruth Cruger, an 18-year-old girl who disappeared in 1917.
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Jan 3, 2017 · "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" was an apt nickname, because she demonstrated the same sort of intuitive intelligence and deductive abilities as Doyle's creation. This biography by Brad Ricca covers a number of Mrs.Humiston's cases, skipping back and forth over a period of about fifteen years during which her career was at its height.
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MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES tells the true story of Grace Humiston, the lawyer, detective and first woman U.S. 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 18-year-old Ruth Cruger, Grace and her partner, the hard-boiled ...
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Jan 3, 2017 · Brad Ricca's Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is the first-ever narrative biography of this singular woman 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. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a nominee for the 2018 Edgar Awards for Best Fact Crime.
