The Woman Sherlock Holmes

When Valentine Brandon and his father-in-law lobbied the governor of Maryland for reinforcements for the investigators, what they had in mind was more police detectives. But in fact, additional A-list talent was already being deployed on the case, and it had nothing to do with the Annapolis, Baltimore, or Washington police departments. It was Arthur Brisbane’s Washington Times that got into the act by retaining experts to solve the murder. The first, and least prominent, was a local gumshoe named Morgan Bradford Jr. He had established his Washington-based agency, the Bradford Detective Service, in 1885, and the Times brought him