Molly Murphy · Book 7
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
- Published
- 1 January 2008
- Pages
- 315
- ISBN-13
- 9780312349431
- Type
- novel
About this book
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden (2008) precedes In a Gilded Cage as the seventh entry, another case set against the settlement-house movement and sweatshop labor that Bowen renders with real period detail.
Its place in Molly Murphy
Tell Me, Pretty Maiden is book 7 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows In Dublin's Fair City. It is followed by In a Gilded Cage. 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 9780312349431
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781597227674
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781429926294