she thought against the same doctor who tormented the famous reporter nelly bly when she went undercover at an insane asylum and was marked for death by the sinister black hands, the italian prime organization's secret codes and mystical rituals which eventually one of grace's rich society friends called to 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 even flickered in front of movie theater audiences. the press, drawn to the story of a pretty sunday school teacher who vanished openly suspected white slavery, foul play and romantic entanglements, sometimes all in the same story. to see clues were flooding the detective precincts but none of them panned out. the 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 but her inability to trust the police, over the last few years turned her into a detective. now