Old Broadbrim Trumping the Trick

A thief who vanished into thin air. A daughter who was never where her father claimed. A diamond broker with secrets he'd rather bury than confess.

Old Broadbrim has seen strange cases before—but none quite like this.

When Peter Hill, a wealthy diamond merchant, walks into the Quaker detective's office with a tale of robbery and a missing clerk, Broadbrim listens carefully. Too carefully. The story doesn't add up. The grief feels performed. The mercy feels calculated.

Then a mother appears—uninvited, trembling, furious—and the whole edifice cracks open.

Broadbrim finds himself caught between two clients who despise each other, a woman murdered before she can tell him everything she knows, and a man who apparently dropped from a train speeding at seventy miles an hour and left nothing behind but a pair of gold-rimmed eyeglasses.

As the threads multiply and the lies deepen, Broadbrim follows the trail from New York's diamond district to the roaring edge of Niagara Falls—navigating forgery, false telegrams, and a family secret powerful enough to destroy everyone it touches.

Someone is pulling strings with a master's confidence. Someone believes this trick cannot be trumped.

They have never faced Old Broadbrim.

Can the Quaker detective unravel a conspiracy woven across thirty years of silence before the truth is buried—along with the last person willing to speak it?