Old Broadbrim on a Strange Abduction Case

A fortune buried in secrets. A girl who's vanished without a trace. And a Quaker detective who never loses his man.

Josiah Broadbrim doesn't believe in easy cases.

When Robert Pinkerton drops a cold trail on his desk—a missing heiress, a suspicious death, and a crumbling Connecticut estate worth three million dollars—Broadbrim boards the afternoon train with more questions than answers. The Merrivale estate has changed hands through poison and manipulation, and now young Miriam Merrivale has disappeared, leaving behind nothing but whispers and a woman named Madge Jortin who doesn't mourn what she's buried.

But Norwalk holds its own surprises. A chance reunion with a young detective barely back from Europe ends with a bullet screaming across a tavern floor. Someone powerful wants this investigation dead before it begins—and they're willing to kill to prove it.

As Broadbrim digs deeper, the case splinters into a web of conspirators, assumed identities, and men with dark, unreadable eyes. A dozen criminals. One missing girl. And a mystery that stretches from Boston seminaries to shadowed country roads where anything can happen after dark.

The Glenorchy House mystery has swallowed better men than him.

Broadbrim intends to be the exception.

Can he find Miriam Merrivale alive before the conspirators erase every trace she ever existed?