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Brad Ricca is the author of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation (St. Martin's, 2017). He is also the author of Super Boys, winner of the 2014 Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction, winner of a 2014 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature, and a Booklist Top 10 Book on the Arts. He is also the author of American Mastodon, winner of the 2009 St. Lawrence Book Award. He is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University and lives with his family in Cleveland.

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Hey -- I am on the awesome Professional Book Nerd podcast -- listen to it here: http://overdrive.libsyn.com/ep-103-in....

Lots of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and comic book-type talk.

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	Super Boys: The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman 3.76 avg rating — 246 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Brad Ricca liked Sugarpuss's review of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: "This book is about two people: 1) Grace Humiston--a lawyer/detective; and 2) Ruth Cruger--a girl that was reported missing in Harlem in 1917. (It says so right in the title!) And as two SEPARATE people with two SEPARATE stories, I think the author..." Read more of this review »
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Brad Ricca liked Jen's review of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: "I enjoyed this book, more than I thought I would. It was a little scattered in its telling, with a lot of jumping around between cases and stories. Not all of the cases had satisfying endings, but bearing in mind this is a work of non-fiction, I s..." Read more of this review »
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Brad Ricca and 3 other people liked Martin L. Cahn's review of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: "Absolutely fascinating story. I can't quite give it a full 5 stars -- in fact, it might really be more like a 3.75 -- but only because of a few quibbles. First, the good: If you're looking for a mix of biography and true crime, this is an excellent..." Read more of this review »
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“Think for yourself...Be an inquirer--make no assertion unless you can support it by reason." (pg. 26)”
― Brad Ricca, Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation

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“She [Grace Humiston] thought that law school graduates as a whole "were like too many carrots in a row--they crowd and crush one another, and nobody grows very big. But the women who transplant themselves into new fields grow like everything. (pg. 133)”
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“all the world was a neighborhood. (pg. 133)”
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