by Brad Ricca
white slavery
Grace’s fight against
network of, not proved
Whitman, Governor
Wilenski, Bennie
William J. Burns International Detective Agency
Williams, Grant
Williams, John Sharp
Wilson, Woodrow
Wintergreen, Mr. (pseudonym)
Winterton, Adoniram Judson (Grace’s father)
Winterton, Adoniram Judson, Jr. (Grace’s brother)
Winterton, Isabella (Grace’s mother)
Winterton, Jessie (Grace’s sister, Mrs. Day)
Winterton, Mary Grace. See Humiston, Grace
Winterton, Nelly (Grace’s sister)
Wolcott, Margaret
Woman’s Progress
women
correct reasoning of, vs. men’s
intuition of, supposed
as lawyers
middle-aged, prejudice against
moral standards of
Women Lawyers Association
Woods, Arthur Hale
called “American Sherlock Holmes”
police commissioner
proven wrong about Ruth’s disappearance
Woods, Helen
Woods, Mrs. Edla G.
Woods, Ralph E.
Wotring, Carlotte
Wright, Tom and Shelby
Wurzberger, Harry
Wuttereich, August
yellow journalism
Yiddish
Zinn, Oscar
Zinsser, William H.
Zucconi, Judge
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BRAD RICCA is the author of Super Boys, named a Top 10 Book on the Arts for 2013, and American Mastodon, winner of the 2009 St. Lawrence Book Award. He won a Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature in 2014 and is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western Reserve University. He lives with his family in Cleveland. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Caveat Emptor
Prologue
1. True Detective Mysteries
2. The Missing Skater
3. The Coroner’s Cabinet
4. The Heatherbloom Girl
5. These Little Cases
6. Army of the Vanished
7. The Mysterious Island of Sunny Side
8. The Giant and the Chair
9. The Manhunter of Harlem
10. The Pale Man
11. A Door to the Underworld
12. A Second Guess
13. The Pointed Finger
14. The Man Who Laughs
15. The Sliding Number
16. Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
17. The Marked Neck
18. Her Last Bow
19. Army of One
20. The Assassin Strikes
21. The Invisible Places
22. The Witnesses’ Revenge
23. Her Dark Shepherd
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Notes
Bibliography
Resources
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Brad Ricca
About the Author
Copyright
MRS. SHERLOCK HOLMES. Copyright © 2016 by Brad Ricca. All rights reserved. For information, address St. Martin’s Press, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010.
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Cover design by Danielle Christopher
Cover photographs: woman © Malgorzata Maz / Arcangel; city © William A. Fraser / Bridgeman Art
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First Edition: January 2017
