Larry Murtagh's Desperate Case

A stolen girl. A relentless detective. A conspiracy that reaches further than anyone dares imagine.

Larry Murtagh is a man who doesn't stop. The Irish detective has spent years navigating New York's darkest corners, and he knows the difference between common crime and something far more sinister.

When a beautiful young shopgirl named Bertha Vandyne is ripped off a rain-slicked Forty-fifth Street and bundled into a waiting carriage, Murtagh arrives moments too late to stop it. He gives chase anyway. A bullet from the kidnapper's revolver sends him crashing face-first into the slush.

Most men would stay down.

Murtagh gets up.

Now, with a wound still fresh and a city erupting in outrage, he pulls at every thread he can find—a shadowy figure called Amos Tremaine, two hired villains with a thousand dollars each burning in their pockets, and a girl whose identity may be worth far more than anyone has admitted.

As the trail grows colder and the conspirators scatter deeper into the city's labyrinth, Murtagh fights the creeping sense that this abduction is only the surface of something monstrous. Someone powerful wants Bertha Vandyne hidden. Someone powerful enough to pay killers, bribe coachmen, and put a bullet in a detective.

Can Murtagh unravel Tremaine's scheme and reach Bertha before her captors decide a living witness is a liability they can no longer afford?