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"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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About the Author
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 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.
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Product details
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (January 9, 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781250160836
ISBN-13: 978-1250160836
ASIN: 1250160839
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.3 x 8.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.4 out of 5 stars
108 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#32,875 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I tried to like this book. I really did, but I failed, The idea for the story is a good one. Some of the characters are interesting. Grace Humiston, the lead character, was a real person and is very interesting. The settings are pretty good. It is based on a true story about the disappearance of an 18-year-old girl in New York city in 1917. However, the whole book is really confusing. Back and forth in time. Back and forth with various events. A meaningless prologue about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I just eventually lost interest. A straightforward telling of the story would have worked better.
I’m keeping my original “review†below but updating this and adding three stars. Once I got into the book I could not stop reading; pulled an all-nighter in fact. This was a thrilling read. You can ignore what I said below. Just give yourself time to get into it. What the author doesn’t explain well is that he took most of the dialogue and information from contemporaneous sources and tried not to change the original much. That makes some phrasing and passages quite choppy or awkward. But with that knowledge, you can ignore it and get into the thrill of the thing. If it doesn’t infuriate you how “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes†was treated! She so deserves to be known. Her work exposed heinous practices and literally saved lives.—-Original:Apparently book reviews don’t let readers ask questions of reviewers but I have one: Would I be better served to skip every other chapter and stick to chapters in the same timeframe? And circle back to the others later?I just started this book and I’m already irked by it. I’m going to finish it because my book club chose it and I was drawn to the subject and perspective. But the writing is incredibly stilted, unnecessarily so. Maybe Ricca wants it to read like a police blotter, but who can stand that? I was a reporter covering police and believe me, you do not want to read an entire book of police reports. It would be like actually reading 10 Johnny Dollar radio shows, all in a row. Just listening to one at a time is sufficient.Mostly however I cannot stand the jumping between decades. There seems to be no literary reason for it. So far.So I’m going to try reading one story and one timeframe through and then go back to the earlier story/timeframe and read that. Maybe thus my ADD won’t go off the rails.I’m hoping some sympathetic soul reading this will let me know if that’s a waste of time and that I should just slog straight through this for some benefits I’m not seeing yet.
Grace Humiston was an enterprising and intelligent woman in early twentieth century New York City. She earned a law degree at a time when that was almost impossible for a woman, and then set herself up as an advocate for the disadvantaged, charging minimal fees and working tirelessly, sometimes for years, on seemingly hopeless cases. She had a flair for publicity and made good copy, so she received a lot of coverage from the many competing newspapers in New York and nationwide. "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.The case Ricca chose to give most of his attention to is that of Ruth Cruger, a 17 year old girl who disappeared in February, 1917. The search for her became a cause celebre in New York City. Grace Humiston was quick to take part in the investigation because the Cruger case exemplified one of her pet peeves against the police and media of the time: they always seemed to assume that a missing girl or woman had eloped, or that she was unhappy at home and had run away, or that something else not very sinister had happened to her. Humiston advocated for crimes against women to be taken more seriously, and warned that many young girls in New York were being kidnapped by white slavers. The Cruger case was interesting and did in the end come to a resolution, but I felt that some of the other cases Ricca also covered were even more compelling, especially the lengthy investigation by Humiston and her associates of a peonage case involving Italian immigrants on a large Mississippi plantation. Humiston also investigated several Death Row cases and was able to achieve reprieves or even commutations in several cases where she uncovered new evidence. Unfortunately her later career was somewhat overshadowed by controversial charges she made that soldiers at a military base were systematically abusing and murdering young women, but even so Humiston's tireless advocacy for women, minorities, and other disadvantaged peoples deserves to be remembered.Overall I enjoyed Mrs. Sherlock Holmes though I found it a bit disjointed at times, jumping back and forth between cases over a period of about fifteen years. It's understandable that Ricca chose the Cruger case as a major framework for telling Humiston's story, but nevertheless the lack of a real denouement for the case (due to circumstances beyond Humiston and Ricca's control) made that part somewhat disappointing. I was also puzzled by the foreword's description of a 1914 visit by Arthur Conan Doyle to New York City, which really had very little, if anything, to do with Grace Humiston. Nevertheless Mrs. Sherlock Holmes is a worthwhile read because it brings Grace Humiston and her almost forgotten career back to life at a time, as Ricca reminds us in his final pages, when women and girls are still being kidnapped and otherwise victimized.
This covers fascinating material. The research is excellent. But it reads more like a scholarly work than an informative book for the general public. The subtitle is misleading. This book is about several cases, not just the Missing Girl Case. All the jumping around in time and topic is confusing if you are expecting the book to be about one case and that everything should tie to it. It isn't and it doesn't. This is not biographical. We learn virtually nothing about Grace Humiston's personal life. But her work life is fascinating and is covered comprehensively. I'd rate it 5 for the content and 3 for the way it is organized. Hence the rating of 4.
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