True Crime and Mrs. Sherlock Holmes
By Brad Ricca
January 3, 2017This is how a story starts: In 1917, on the day before Valentine’s Day, eighteen-year-old Ruth Cruger left her family’s apartment to do some errands around their Harlem neighborhood. The snow was falling. She walked down the street and vanished. It’s a kind of story we’ve heard before. But what makes it different from other…