Synopses & Reviews
Rhys Bowens award-winning series combines thrilling historical events with truly beguiling characters—under the most mysterious circumstances…
IN A GILDED CAGE
Its Easter Sunday 1918, and Irish immigrant Molly Murphy has agreed to march down Fifth Avenue with the sign-wielding suffragettes from Vassar—a civil act of protest that lands her in jail. Mollys betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, manages to spring her from the clink, though his hands are full dealing with Chinese opium gangs. But as soon as shes free, Molly marches straight into trouble again. Two of the Vassar alumni need Mollys help as a private investigator. One believes her uncle is cheating her out of an inheritance; the other suspects her husband is cheating with other women. And when one of the clients dies—presumably from influenza, which is sweeping the city—Molly takes to the streets once more. Not to win the right for women to vote, but to reveal the wrongs of some very evil men…
“Delightful…Bowen does a splendid job of capturing the flavor of early 20th-century New York and bringing to life its warm and human inhabitants.”
—Publishers Weekly
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Praise for Rhys Bowen
“Winning…Its all in a days work for this delightfully spunky heroine.”
---Publishers Weekly on Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
“For readers who love mysteries more for character development than puzzle solving, the seventh Molly Murphy novel…does not disappoint.”
---Booklist on Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
“Molly is an indomitable creature.… The book bounces along in the hands of Ms. Bowen and her Molly, and there is no doubt that she will be back causing trouble.”
---Washington Times on In Dublins Fair City
“Readers will surely testify that Murphy has become one of their favorite characters.… This book is a keeper.”
---Tampa Tribune on In Dublins Fair City
“The feisty Molly rarely disappoints in this rousing yarn seasoned with a dash of Irish history.”
---Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on In Dublins Fair City
“Its enjoyable charm and wit will appeal to a cross-section of mystery fans.”
---Baltimore Sun on Oh Danny Boy
Review
“Delightful…Bowen does a splendid job of capturing the flavor of early 20th-century New York and bringing to life its warm and human inhabitants.”
—Publishers Weekly
Review
Praise for Rhys Bowen
“Winning…Its all in a days work for this delightfully spunky heroine.”
---Publishers Weekly on Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
“For readers who love mysteries more for character development than puzzle solving, the seventh Molly Murphy novel…does not disappoint.”
---Booklist on Tell Me, Pretty Maiden
“Molly is an indomitable creature.… The book bounces along in the hands of Ms. Bowen and her Molly, and there is no doubt that she will be back causing trouble.”
---Washington Times on In Dublins Fair City
“Readers will surely testify that Murphy has become one of their favorite characters.… This book is a keeper.”
---Tampa Tribune on In Dublins Fair City
“The feisty Molly rarely disappoints in this rousing yarn seasoned with a dash of Irish history.”
---Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on In Dublins Fair City
“Its enjoyable charm and wit will appeal to a cross-section of mystery fans.”
---Baltimore Sun on Oh Danny Boy
Synopsis
Irish immigrant Molly Murphy and her New York City P.I. business are in the midst of a sweeping influenza epidemic and a fight for womens suffrage that lands her in jail. Her betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, finds her, but he hardly has time to bail her out, what with Chinese gangs battling for control of a thriving opium trade. The only consolation Molly can take from her vexing afternoon in the clink is that it made her some new friends among the Vassar suffragists---and brought her a pair of new cases.
For the first, Emily Boswell is convinced her miserly uncle stole her inheritance and wants Molly to uncover the truth behind her parents lives and deaths. Second, Emilys college roommate Fanny Poindexter wants Molly to find proof of her husbands philandering so that she can leave him without one red cent. But when Fanny dies and her husband claims shes a victim of the epidemic, its more than Mollys conscience can take.
Rhys Bowens Agatha and Anthony Award--winning historical series continues to breathe life into the past with its wit and charm and its complete sense of early-twentieth-century New York, which makes In a Gilded Cage her most accomplished mystery yet.
Synopsis
Molly Murphy is on the trail of an orphan's rightful inheritance, in the latest work in this delightful, multiple award-winning series.
Synopsis
Its Easter Sunday 1918, and Irish immigrant Molly Murphy has agreed to march down Fifth Avenue with the sign-wielding suffragettes from Vassar—a civil act of protest that lands her in jail. Mollys betrothed, Police Captain Daniel Sullivan, manages to spring her from the clink, though his hands are full dealing with Chinese opium gangs. But as soon as shes free, Molly marches straight into trouble again. Two of the Vassar alumni need Mollys help as a private investigator. One believes her uncle is cheating her out of an inheritance; the other suspects her husband is cheating with other women. And when one of the clients dies—presumably from influenza, which is sweeping the city—Molly takes to the streets once more. Not to win the right for women to vote, but to reveal the wrongs of some very evil men…
About the Author
Rhys Bowen is the author of the award-winning Molly Murphy and Constable Evans mysteries. Her novels have garnered an impressive array of awards and nominations, including the Anthony award for her novel For the Love of Mike and the Agatha Award for Murphys Law. Her books have also won the Bruce Alexander Historical Award and the Herodotus Award, and have been shortlisted for the Edgar, the Agatha, the Macavity, the Barry, and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She has also written Her Royal Spyness, a series about a minor royal in 1930s England, and she is the author of several short stories, including the Anthony Award-winning “Doppelganger.” Her story “Voodoo” was chosen to be part of the anthology of the best of 50 years of Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Ms. Bowen was born in Bath, England, and worked as an announcer and studio manager for the BBC in London, before moving to Australia and then California. It was here she started writing childrens and young adult novels, and then moved on to mysteries with the Constable Evans novels. When not writing she loves to travel, sing, hike, play her Celtic harp, and entertain her grandchildren. She lives in San Rafael, California.