from hardlyhardy

To that list of creative historian/biographers that includes Erik Larson, Candice Millard and, way back when, Truman Capote, you can add the name Brad Ricca, whose recent "Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" proves that the earlier "Super Boys" was no fluke. By the use of the word creative I mean to suggest th...

from EllenH

Our Nonfiction, September book club book. Somewhat disorganized, but still an excellent book. Not sure how one could have told this story in a different way. The work that Grace Humiston, a lawyer and detective, did for the women, poor people and immigrants was difficult and praiseworthy, but she...

from jen.e.moore

Although this wound out being more about the murder than the titular detective, I enjoyed this very much: I always enjoy a peek into the lives of prominent women of a hundred years ago, when most of us imagine that prominent women were only wives and widows.

from VictoriaJZ

I enjoyed learning about Grace Humiston, a lawyer and detective in New York who was particularly adept at following the facts and uncovering the actual criminals in a variety of situations. The book focuses primarily upon the case of the missing Cruger girl in 1917, but also involves cases of peo...

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I did enjoy learning about Grace Humiston, whom I had never heard of before, and the case of the missing girl was interesting, but I did get bogged down in some of the details. I wish there had been more about Grace herself rather than about different cases, some of which were discussed in more d...