Molly Murphy · Book 5
Oh Danny Boy
- Published
- 1 January 2006
- Pages
- 339
- ISBN-13
- 9780312328177
- Type
- novel
About this book
Oh Danny Boy (2006) is the fifth entry at 339 pages, Molly still out-thinking the era's casual sexism rather than fighting it head-on as she builds her career as one of the city's few female investigators.
Its place in Molly Murphy
Oh Danny Boy is book 5 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows In Like Flynn. It is followed by In Dublin's Fair City. 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 9780312328177
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312997014
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597222358