Grace Humiston and the Vanishing Author:Charles Kelly It's 1917 in New York City, and women criminal investigators are not in great demand. An exception is lawyer Grace Humiston, who has saved a falsely-convicted man from death row by convincing one of the true killers to confess. Now, with the police getting nowhere in the disappearance of high school student Ruth Cruger, the girl's parents consu... more »lt Humiston. Humiston agrees to take the case, though she suspects the girl is dead.
Grace Humiston and the Vanishing, a novel based on the most celebrated success of the America's greatest forgotten woman detective, takes Humiston and her Transylvanian private investigator Julius Kron through the sewers of New York police corruption, into the seamy machinations of the international prostitution trade, and onto the high seas to pursue the truth about what happened to Ruth Cruger.
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