Molly Murphy · Book 8
In a Gilded Cage
- Published
- 1 January 2009
- Pages
- 276
- ISBN-13
- 9780312385347
- Type
- novel
About this book
In a Gilded Cage (2009), the eighth book Bowen wrote solo, followed Tell Me, Pretty Maiden, Molly's detective work continuing to unfold against Broadway theater and Gilded Age New York.
Its place in Molly Murphy
In a Gilded Cage is book 8 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows Tell Me, Pretty Maiden. It is followed by The Last Illusion. 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 9780312385347
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597229890
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429934626