Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, Brad Ricca
Mrs. Sherlock Holmes, Brad Ricca
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That C...

Author: Brad Ricca

Narrator: David Bendena

Unabridged: 12 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/26/2018

Synopsis

Mrs. Grace Humiston was an amazing lawyer and a traveling detective during a time when no women were practicing those professions. She focused on solving cases no one else wanted and advocating for innocents. The first female U.S. District Attorney, she made groundbreaking investigations into modern-day slavery, and the papers gave her the nickname of fiction's famous sleuth. One of her greatest accomplishments was solving the cold case of a missing eighteen-year-old girl, Ruth Cruger. Her work changed how the country viewed the problem of missing girls, but it came with a price: she learned all too well what happens when one woman upstages the entire NYPD. In the literary tradition of In Cold Blood and The Devil in the White City, this true-crime tale is told in spine-tingling fashion and has important repercussions concerning kidnapping, the role of the media, and the truth of crime stories. But the great mystery of this book-and its haunting twist ending-is how one woman became so famous only to disappear

About Brad Ricca

BRAD RICCA earned his Ph.D. in English from Case Western Reserve University where he currently teaches. The author of Super Boys, he has spoken on comics at various schools and museums, and he has been interviewed about comics topics by The New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and All Things Considered on NPR. His film Last Son won a 2010 Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. He lives in Cleveland, Ohio.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on November 16, 2018

In the era before women could vote, an extraordinary detective and lawyer was solving crimes the police couldn't and defending those who couldn't afford it. Her name was Grace Humiston and this is her story. Grace was admitted to the bar in the state of New York in 1905, becoming one of only a thousa......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on February 13, 2017

Overall this book disappointed me; however, I am conflicted about how to rate it because I found the story itself very interesting, and there were parts that I really got into. I'd say 2.5 stars. The first quarter of the book dragged, the middle picked up a lot and was really good, and the end dragg......more

Goodreads review by Hannah on December 22, 2016

I couldn't put this book down! It grabbed me from page one. For a non-fiction book, it was very well written and even felt like fiction (by it's flow and pace) at times. The story of Mrs. Grace Humiston was one I had never heard of before reading this book, and I was extremely impressed by her life,......more

Goodreads review by Lauralyrics on February 06, 2017

Someone called this book a "bait-and-switch", and they're absolutely correct. The story itself was absorbing, but the writing was childish--I felt at certain points as though I was reading a picture book for adults--and the book really has very little to do with Sherlock Holmes apart from the introd......more

Goodreads review by joyce g on September 25, 2017

Remarkable and inventive factual story of an amazing woman ahead of her time.......more

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