Detective Hardscrabble's Long Chase

A detective with a bad feeling about his only client.

Nathan Hardscrabble has seen plenty of ugly faces in his years working the streets of New York. But when old Edward Catherwood walks into his Nassau Street office with a story about a missing nephew, Hardscrabble knows immediately that something is rotten. The man is too calm. Too cold. Too unconcerned about a blood relative who may already be dead.

Still, two hundred dollars is two hundred dollars—and a missing man is a missing man.

Hardscrabble digs in. A mysterious attack in a midnight blizzard. A steamship arrived from Porto Rico. A shadowy Spanish gambler who attached himself to the young man like a barnacle. And four hard-looking thugs already tailing Hardscrabble through the streets of South Brooklyn before he's asked a single question.

Someone is desperate to keep the truth buried.

As the trail winds deeper into New York's criminal underworld, Hardscrabble begins to understand what he's truly chasing—not a missing man, but a fortune worth two million dollars, and a conspiracy that runs closer to home than he ever imagined.

His client may be the most dangerous man in the case.

Can Hardscrabble untangle the Catherwood mystery before the people trying to stop him succeed—and a young man's fate is sealed forever?