Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia or, A Strange Bargain and Its Consequences

"Old Broadbrim Into the Heart of Australia" by St. George Rathborne is a thrilling detective novel set in the early 1900s, where a Quaker detective known as Old Broadbrim accepts a puzzling contract to protect the wealthy Custer Kipp, who has received death threats, for the vast payment of $50,000 for one year of service. Meeting Kipp on a fateful day in the Quaker's residence, Old Broadbrim accepts the case, but his assignment takes a deadly turn when Kipp is found murdered soon after, plunging the detective into a perilous investigation to uncover the murderer, a sinister plot involving another murder and a deadly enemy, which leads him across the world and shows him how dark humanity can be when looking for the truth.

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