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Brad Ricca
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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.
Thanks!
Lots of Mrs. Sherlock Holmes and comic book-type talk.
Thanks!
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation:
"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..."
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation:
"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..."
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Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City's Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation:
"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.
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That's a good way of putting it. I'll be honest, I totally believed that for a good chunk of writing this, but when I found out that cops helped build
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