The N Y P d'S Most Extensive, Eternal Audit

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After Ruth cruger's case was closed, the press began referring to grace humiston as missus. Sherlock holmes bradricka says julius crone was her son. And then the n y p d had to answer for why grace found so many clues they couldn't. But what comes out in the audit is that coche a ran a gambling ringthat many of the policemen were part of. And he also fixed their motor cycles. They even found a note in all cabs that said, protect koche. So, you know, when they did these searches of his place, did they miss what was in the basement, or did they turn the other way?

In 1917, 18-year-old Ruth Cruger disappeared. She’d last been seen getting her ice skates sharpened in the motorcycle shop of a man named Alfredo Cocchi. Newspapers reported that she probably ran off with a boyfriend, and New York police said that there were no clues to go on. But an investigator named Grace Quackenbos Humiston decided that she would do whatever it took to find her. She became known as “Mrs. Sherlock Holmes.”

Brad Ricca’s book is Mrs. Sherlock Holmes: The True Story of New York City’s Greatest Female Detective and the 1917 Missing Girl Case That Captivated a Nation.

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