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Mrs Holmes: Murder, Kidnap and the True Story of an Extraordinary Lady Detective by Brad Ricca (view source)
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Another issue I had with this book is that interwoven with the central story are other criminal cases and investigations with which Grace Humiston was involved during her career. The chronology does tend to shift forwards and backwards, over a period of fifteen years or so. How relevant, for instance, is the description in the foreword of Arthur Conan Doyle's visit to New York City in 1914? - and despite its positive qualities the result is a somewhat disjointed, sometimes hard to follow read.
If you enjoy this, you might also like to read two other American true crime stories. A case from the 1930s is featured in [[Quiet Dell by Jayne Anne Phillips]], and one from thirty years after that in [[A Death in Belmont by Sebastian Junger]].
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