Young Broadbrim and the Cipher Monogram

A boy detective with everything to prove. A cipher no one can crack. A dare that could get him killed.

Harry Wilson—known everywhere as Young Broadbrim—carries a name that opens doors and a reputation that puts targets on his back. Barely out of his teens, he has already outpaced detectives twice his age. But the Trenton case is different.

A phantom gang has stripped the city blind, and the only trace they leave is a strange blue monogram—two interlocked B's—carved and chalked like a taunt. The Trenton police are beaten. Old Broadbrim sends his protégé to finish the job.

Harry expects a challenge. He does not expect to be recognized before he even finds the trail.

As he closes in on the gang's river hideout, Harry discovers a drugged child hidden in an underground cave, a prisoner Cal Summers who vanishes from under his nose, and a mob of desperate men waiting in the dark. The Bee-Bees know his name. They know his methods. And now they are hunting him.

Outnumbered on every street, Harry fights his way toward the truth with nothing but nerve, quick hands, and the stubborn refusal to back down.

If he fails, a fortune in stolen goods disappears—and a helpless child disappears with it.

Can Young Broadbrim break the cipher and take down the Bee-Bees before they finish what they started?