Old Broadbrim Revealing a Double Life

A Quaker detective. A dead man with two lives. A young woman who doesn't know she's a target.

Old Broadbrim has seen the worst of New York's dark underbelly, but the murders at the St. Denis Hotel stop him cold. A wealthy English gentleman smothered in his bed. His wife dead from shock. Their daughter hovering between life and the grave. The crime is brazen, organized, and personal—and Broadbrim knows it before the blood dries.

As he pulls at the threads—a crude iron hook, a white-haired simpleton with half a secret, and a well-dressed man on a morning train with suspiciously stained hands—Broadbrim begins to see the shape of something monstrous. The victim wasn't just a gentleman from London. He was a man with a hidden past, a stolen fortune, and enemies who had been waiting years to collect.

Charles Kimball, the young gentleman who pulled the unconscious girl from that room of horrors, believes she is still in danger. Broadbrim agrees.

Because the man who ordered these murders isn't fleeing. He's circling. He wants the girl alive—for reasons of his own.

Now Broadbrim races through layers of blackmail, false identities, and buried American secrets before a killer with a respectable face closes the trap. The evidence exists. It always does.

Can Broadbrim follow the clue of the blood-stained paper before an innocent woman pays for crimes that were never hers?