Gideon Gault's Great Jewelry Case

A diamond agent with a hundred thousand dollars in his waistcoat pocket. A train hurtling east through a pitch-black Nebraska night. One desperate robbery that changes everything.

Jack Pollock is the most trusted traveling man in the gem trade—fifteen years on the road without losing a penny, and a confidence in his own instincts that borders on arrogance. He knows how to keep secrets. He knows how to keep safe. He knows men.

He is wrong.

When a lone desperado terrorizes an entire railcar and beats Pollock half to death in the aisle, the diamonds vanish into the darkness—and with them, Jack's reputation, his livelihood, and very nearly his life.

Now the case falls to Gideon Gault and Allan Pinkerton. Two detectives. Three puzzling clues. And a trail that winds from the Nebraska plains through Chicago's criminal underworld before doubling back in directions neither man expects.

Gault is methodical where Pinkerton is instinctive. Together they are formidable. But the thief is cunning, the diamonds are gone, and every witness who can swear to a face offers a different kind of doubt.

As the investigation tightens, Gault begins to suspect the robbery was never a matter of opportunity. Someone talked. Someone planned. And someone very close to Jack Pollock knew exactly which pocket held the gems.

Can Gault follow the clues to the truth before the trail goes cold forever?