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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
Apr 24, 2017salgeogal rated this title 2 out of 5 stars
I really wanted to like this book, but it just kinda went nowhere. She did a ton of great work, but the cases covered in the book are a bit jumbled together and there wasn't much done to talk about what impact those cases had - were new laws written? Later in her career she made a claim about girls being killed, but it made no sense. She had based her work on facts and following the facts, but here, out of the blue she made a very serious charge, but there were no facts. Why did she make the claim? Nothing was put forward in the book about what might have motivated her. And then the last part of her life is covered in a handful of pages. Yes, she did largely stop working so there wasn't much to write about, but it still didn't feel exactly right to end it that way. Not a horrible book by any means, it was interesting. Just felt kinda half done.