Old Broadbrim Chasing the Bank Thieves

A fortune vanished. A banker missing. And a detective who can hear a lie before it's finished.

Old Broadbrim has seen a hundred swindlers work their trade across the streets of New York—but nothing quite like this. Half a million dollars has walked out of a downtown bank in broad daylight, carried by a man wearing another man's face. The real Mr. Delavan is nowhere to be found. And every soul who steps through Old Broadbrim's door seems to be someone else entirely.

The Quaker detective trusts his ears over his eyes—no man has ever deceived him with a word. But this case is different. Doubles appear where there should be one man. Imposters vanish before they can be seized. A Texan financier arrives twice, and neither visit quite adds up. Somewhere beneath the tangle of false faces and forged identities, a brilliant criminal mind is pulling every string.

As Old Broadbrim closes in, the web tightens around him instead. The bank's secrets run deeper than a single robbery. The cashier smiles too calmly. The man with the pear-shaped birthmark is still at large. And the missing banker may not have gone anywhere of his own accord.

With New York's financial world teetering on the edge of panic, Old Broadbrim races to untangle the most elaborate deception he has ever faced.

Can he unmask the man behind the stolen face before the next half million disappears—and before the truth destroys more than just a bank?