mrs. felix adler called to tell her that a girl had gone missing in new york and begged her to meet with the father of the girl one mr. henry krieger. by the time grace agreed to take the case roof repairs photo that appeared in newspapers all over the country. her image even flickered in front of movie theater audiences drawn to the story other. sunday schoolteacher who had vanished openly suspected white slavery for all play and romantic entanglement, sometimes all in the same story. juicy clues were flooding into detector precincts but none of them panned out. but grace took it different approach to the case. she locked herself in her office for a week to study every scrap of paper related to it. grace had been trained as a lawyer but are in ability to trust to the police or even the law itself had over the last few years turned her into more of a detective. now at age 48 for formula was to search for clues herself, verify them and use them in a courtroom to make her arguments. she didn't trust the police so she effectively just found her own evidence. in this case grace kept coming back