A New Plan for Julius Crone and Grace

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With julius crone's cover now blown, he and grace needed to come up with a new plan. So they find an old coal shut from the street that goes up to the basement of public property. And through a variety of ways, grace gets a permit for this. An crone and a someone else start digging in. It's a hole they find. And they start digging every day. Police walk by and laugh at them and throw things at them. But they're find and they keep digging and digging, and then they find adoor.

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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