Young Broadbrim's Great Duel

A boy detective who's cracked murders on the high seas. A missing baronet playing pirate somewhere in the Mediterranean. And a case that could take them to the edge of the known world.

Harry Wilson — Young Broadbrim — is used to danger. Trained by the legendary Old Broadbrim himself, Harry has earned every feather in his cap. But tracking down a fugitive English nobleman who doesn't want to be found is a different kind of hunt entirely.

When a Glasgow barrister summons Harry and his wisecracking partner Dandy Dick abroad to locate the missing Sir Barton Griston, the job sounds simple enough. Find the scapegrace. Deliver the news. Come home.

Nothing about it is simple.

From the moment they step off the steamer in Constantinople, the city swallows them whole. Foreign officials. Dungeon cells. Shadowy figures who know exactly who they are — and want them stopped. And somewhere out on the dark water, a blond-haired man pilots a Spanish felucca toward unknown ports, with no intention of being caught.

Harry pushes forward anyway. He always does.

But as the trail grows colder and the danger grows hotter, Harry begins to wonder whether Sir Barton is hiding from his inheritance — or hiding from something far worse.

Can two American boys crack the most elusive case of their careers before the Mediterranean swallows all three of them?