This is the shocking and amazing true story of the first female U.S. District Attorney and traveling detective who found missing 18-year-old Ruth Cruger when the entire NYPD had given up.
BRAD RICCA is the author of Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman, winner of the Ohioana Book Award for Nonfiction and the Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature. His first book of poetry, American Mastodon, won the St. Lawrence Book Award. His documentary Last Son won a Silver Ace Award at the Las Vegas International Film Festival. He has been a contributing expert for the New York Daily News, TheWall Street Journal, the BBC, the AV Club, and All Things Considered. He is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, where he was born and now lives with his family.
The author of Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel
and Joe Shuster--The Creators of Superman (2013) returns with the
astonishing story of the first female U.S. district
attorney...Rapid, compelling storytelling informed by rigorous
research and enlivened by fecund imagination. --Kirkus Reviews
(Starred) Ricca has parlayed an obscure reference to Mrs. Sherlock
Holmes in his earlier research into a spellbinding true crime
history that reads like a novel. It will be enjoyed by aficionados
of Victorian crime novels as well as true crime fans.--Library
Journal (Starred) [Humiston's] story demands a hearing.... Brad
Ricca makes a heroic case for Humiston, a lawyer and United States
district attorney who forged a career of defending powerless women
and immigrants. --New York Times Book Review
Fans of Erik Larson's books will enjoy reading about Grace
Humiston's remarkable career in an era when women were still
fighting for the right to vote.--Booklist In Mrs. Sherlock Holmes,
Brad Ricca paints the picture of Grace Humiston, a soft-spoken yet
persistent woman investigator determined to solve the disappearance
of an 18-year-old girl--this in the midst of both the suffragist
and white-slavery movements. Where the police leave off, Humiston,
undaunted by naysayers, picks up clues and doggedly follows them.
Ricca lays out this fascinating whodunit with a novelist's skill,
making Mrs. Sherlock Holmes a suspenseful winner. --Cathy Scott,
award-winning journalist and Los Angeles Times bestselling author
of Murder of a Mafia Daughter and The Killing of Tupac Shakur Brad
Ricca's spellbinding nonfiction account of the disappearance and
murder of a young woman ranks right up there with the most
absorbing mystery novels. Set against a background of early 20th
century New York, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes exposes police indifference,
newspaper sensationalism and sexist attitudes. A first-rate story.
--Sandra Dallas, New York Times Bestselling author of The Last
Midwife A fascinating account of Grace Humiston, a pioneering
attorney in the early 20th century...Her incredible life story,
superbly portrayed by Ricca, is more proof that truth is stranger
than fiction. --Publisher's Weekly
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