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
(2016)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
362.829765/RICCA,B

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 362.829765/RICCA,B Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2016
EDITION
First Edition
DESCRIPTION

viii, 436 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250072245 (hardcover), 1250072247 (hardcover)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

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