Molly Murphy · Book 9
The Last Illusion
- Published
- 1 January 2010
- Pages
- 279
- ISBN-13
- 9780312385408
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Last Illusion (2010) is the ninth entry at 279 pages, Molly's cases still rooted in the era's Tammany Hall corruption and immigrant New York even as her own circumstances slowly change.
Its place in Molly Murphy
The Last Illusion is book 9 in the Molly Murphy series. It follows In a Gilded Cage. It is followed by Bless the Bride. 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 9780312385408
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781410426581
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780312535353