Guy Garrick

It's 1912, and the automobile is still a marvel, a plaything for millionaires and a novelty that Boston's police cannot comprehend. When Mortimer Warrington's car is stolen, he turns to Guy Garrick, a detective whose methods belong to the future: chemistry, ballistics, the cold calculus of science applied to criminal investigation. But this is no ordinary theft. A murdered chauffeur, a mysterious cartridge, and a trail of evidence that suggests a far deeper conspiracy. Garrick and his friend must navigate a world of heiresses concealing scandals, wealthy men with dangerous secrets, and a criminal enterprise that may reach closer to home than anyone suspects. The case unfolds through fingerprint analysis and deductive reasoning, against a backdrop of Boston's gaslit parlors and midnight roads where automobiles thunder through the dark. For readers who love the birth of forensic detection, this is a time capsule of American crime fiction's pioneering days, when catching killers meant outthinking them with reason alone.