Old Broadbrim on the Wrong Case

A Quaker detective in a rough man's disguise. A wealthy estate terrorized by shadows. A case that's anything but what it seems.

Old Broadbrim has seen every flavor of trouble that New York can produce—but when Robert Stuyvesant walks into his office with a story about poachers, broken fences, and terrified women, something nags at the back of Broadbrim's mind. He knows this man. He just can't remember how.

Dismissing the feeling, he sets off for the Connecticut countryside, trading his plain coat for a tramp's rags and his office chair for a cold streambank in the dark. He's hunting a gang of ten outlaws who know these woods too well and fear no law—because the State line makes them ghosts. He infiltrates their camp, earns their trust over a stolen fire and a plucked hen, and begins to see the shape of something far larger and darker than an angry band of poachers.

Because men this organized, this brazen, this fearless don't terrorize a man's estate over game birds.

Someone wants Stuyvesant ruined. And as Broadbrim pushes deeper into the tangle of old grudges and new crimes, the nagging memory sharpens into something dangerous.

This isn't just a wrong case. This is the right enemy—twenty years in the making.

Can Broadbrim uncover the truth before the past destroys everything Stuyvesant has left?