Molly Murphy · Book 13
City of Darkness and Light
- Published
- 1 January 2014
- Pages
- 483
- ISBN-13
- 9781410468901
- Type
- novel
About this book
City of Darkness and Light (2014), the thirteenth book Bowen wrote solo, followed The Family Way at 483 pages, one of the series' longer entries as Molly's life in New York keeps evolving.
Its place in Molly Murphy
City of Darkness and Light is book 13 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows The Family Way. It is followed by The Edge of Dreams. See the full Molly Murphy reading order.
Molly Murphy flees Ireland in 1901 after killing a man in self-defense, arrives at Ellis Island with a dead woman's identity papers, and lands in New York City with nothing but nerve and an accidental talent for getting mixed up in murders. She becomes one of the city's only female private investigators, working cases the police won't take from a converted tenement office, while immigrant New York — Tammany Hall corruption, sweatshop labor, Broadway theater, the settlement-house movement — unfolds around her in…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410468901
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781472118455
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781472118448