"Mrs. Sherlock Holmes" by Brad Ricca is the story of a once well-known female detective in New York named Grace Humiston. Grace was a lawyer in the early 1900s when female lawyers were few and far between. She took the cases no one else ever wanted and managed to free several innocent people who were on Death Row. Along the way Grace became a detective of sorts as well. In 1917, a young lady named Ruth Cruger disappeared. The police wrote it off as her eloping with a boyfriend and didn't really investigate. Ruth's family knew better and her father turned to Grace for help. Grace investigated Ruth's disappearance and ended up finding her body buried in a cellar of a local motorcycle repair shop the police had actually searched several times without finding anything. Grace fought long and hard in the years afterwards to expose sex slavery and ended up being labeled a crackpot because of her audacious claims as to how widespread it was. She died in obscurity, and today no one has ever heard of her. It was a very exciting story and well written.
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