Molly Murphy · Book 1
Murphy's Law
- Published
- 1 January 2001
- Pages
- 242
- ISBN-13
- 9780312984977
- Type
- novel
About this book
Murphy's Law (2001) launches Rhys Bowen's series, introducing Molly Murphy as she flees Ireland after killing a man in self-defense, arrives at Ellis Island under a dead woman's identity papers, and lands in turn-of-the-century New York with nothing but nerve.
Its place in Molly Murphy
Murphy's Law is book 1 in the Molly Murphy series. It is followed by Death of Riley. 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 9780312282066
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312984977
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781574904857