tell her a girl had gone missing in new york and begged her to meet with the father of the girl, henry kruger by the time grace agreed to take the case, ruth kruger's photo had appeared in newspapers all over the country. her image flickered in front of movie theater audiences was the press, drawn to the story of a pretty sunday school teacher who had vanished, openly suspected white slavery, foul play, romantic entanglement, sometimes all in the same story. juicy clues were flooding detective precincts but none of them panned out. grace took a different approach, she locked herself in her office for a week to study every scrap of paper related to it. grace was trained as a lawyer for her inability to trust the police or the law itself. over the last few years had turned her into more of a detective. now at age 48 her formula was the search for clues herself, verify them and use them in the courtroom to make arguments. she didn't trust the police so she found her own evidence. in this case grace kept coming back to the man who had sharpened ruth have scales. since being questioned by detectiv