Molly Murphy · Book 17
The Ghost of Christmas Past
- Published
- 1 January 2017
- Pages
- 264
- ISBN-13
- 9781250125729
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Ghost of Christmas Past (2017), the seventeenth book Bowen wrote solo, is the last entry she wrote alone before Clare Broyles joined her as co-author starting with Wild Irish Rose in 2022.
Its place in Molly Murphy
The Ghost of Christmas Past is book 17 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows Time of Fog and Fire. It is followed by Wild Irish Rose. 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 9781250125729
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781250190673
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781432843427