Molly Murphy · Book 2
Death of Riley
- Published
- 1 January 2002
- Pages
- 284
- ISBN-13
- 9780312282110
- Type
- novel
About this book
Death of Riley (2002), the second book Bowen wrote solo, follows Murphy's Law as Molly establishes herself as one of the city's only female private investigators, working from a converted tenement office and the immigrant New York the series renders in vivid, well-researched detail.
Its place in Molly Murphy
Death of Riley is book 2 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows Murphy's Law. It is followed by For the Love of Mike. 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 9780312282110
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312989682
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781574905298