Old Broadbrim Foiling a Fiend

A detective who never loses. A killer the courts just set free. One verdict that changes everything.

Old Broadbrim has never walked away from a trail. When the Quaker detective weaves a meticulous web of evidence around Byrd Mantell—charming, ruthless, and suspected of cold-blooded murder—he expects justice. He expects the jury to do what the evidence demands.

They don't.

The verdict hits like a blade: not guilty. Mantell walks free, and the courts can never touch him for that crime again. The city sneers. The papers question Old Broadbrim's legendary reputation. Every man who once feared him now doubts him.

But Old Broadbrim doesn't doubt himself.

He knows what the jury refused to see. He knows Mantell is still moving, still scheming—already reaching for something darker than the crime that brought him to trial. And somewhere inside the gilded household of a wealthy retired banker, a beautiful housekeeper with hidden loyalties is tightening a trap no courtroom could have predicted.

As Mantell vanishes into the shadows and conspiracies multiply around him, Old Broadbrim follows—patient, relentless, and utterly certain that the game is only beginning.

The law has failed. The trail has not.

Can Old Broadbrim unravel a conspiracy that stretches from the gaslit slums to the parlors of the privileged—before the real victims have no one left to save them?