Young Broadbrim and the Death Touch

A killer who leaves no fingerprints. A poison with no antidote. A hand that shouldn't exist.

Harry Wilson—Young Broadbrim—has seen plenty of crime in New York City, but nothing like this. When society widow Mrs. Gordon Masters is found dead in her locked study, no signs of struggle, no blood, only four tiny black marks on her throat, Harry knows the police are already out of their depth. So does he.

The case pulls him deeper than he expected. A treacherous driver. A fire-trapped tenement. A mysterious girl bound and helpless in a criminal's lair. A man named Partouch who moves like smoke and vanishes like one.

As Harry fights his way through ambushes and burning buildings, the evidence keeps pointing toward something that defies reason—an assassin who kills with a touch, leaving behind an impression no human hand could make.

Then the will is read, and everything changes. A long-lost daughter. A hidden inheritance. A secret tattooed in India ink on a dead woman's wrist.

The closer Harry gets to the truth, the more dangerous the shadows around him become. Someone with extraordinary skill and zero hesitation is eliminating witnesses and covering every trail.

Can Young Broadbrim unmask a killer who works in the dark—before that impossible hand finds Harry's own throat?