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In like Flynn / Rhys Bowen.
"Fledgling private investigator Molly Murphy's latest assignment gives her the opportunity to escape the typhoid epidemic sweeping across New York City in the summer of 1902 for the lush Hudson River Valley. And it comes from an unlikely source-Captain Daniel Sullivan, a New York City police detective and erstwhile beau of Molly's. She has vowed to keep him at arm's length until he can rid himself of his socialite fiancée, but she can't pass up the chance to take advantage of his offer of a real detective job." -- From Amazon.
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- ISBN: 9781250075185 (paperback)
- Physical Description: 321 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Minotaur Books paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Minotaur Books, 2015.
- Copyright: ©2005
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2005 February #1
Molly Murphy escapes the typhoid epidemic in New York City in 1902 by going undercover as a cousin of Senator Barney Flynn in his house above the Hudson River. Flynn's wife still mourns the kidnapping and death of their son, and she has turned to spiritualists for solace. Molly, while investigating the spiritualist sisters, also tries to untangle the web around the kidnapping. Told in the first person, Molly's adventures strain credulity a bit this time: more than one attempted rape, a poisoning where she forgives and dismisses the guilty party, and the reappearance of an evil figure from her past whom she thought was long dead. Even the Black Hand and the orphan trains play roles. Meanwhile, Molly toys with the affections of an Irish police officer and a Jewish anarchist and is toyed with in return. Too much, to be sure, but series fans will want to see what happens next. ((Reviewed February 1, 2005)) Copyright 2005 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2005 February #1
A turn-of-the-century private investigator puts on her bloomers and goes sleuthing.To protect her from the Hudson Dusters, a notorious New York gang, police captain Daniel Sullivan sends Molly Murphy upstate undercover as Miss Gaffney, distant cousin to Senator Barney Flynn, to debunk the claim of the Sorenson Sisters, who've convinced the senator's wife Theresa that they can make the soul of her son Brendan, kidnapped five years ago, appear at a séance. The Sisters, of course, are frauds, but Molly is more interested in uncovering who kidnapped young Brendan, because it's apparent, at least to her, that the chauffeur was set up to take the fall and died for his trouble. Theresa's companion, her cousin Clara, and her sister Belinda come under suspicion. So do Rimes, the senator's political aide; Derek, his personal assistant; Roland Van Gelder, the impoverished son of his political rival; Soames, the ubiquitous butler; and a plethora of domestics. There's croquet on the lawn, tea on the veranda, senatorial groping, bicycle jaunts to the village, a push off a cliff, two poisonings and Molly's sighting of Justin Hartley, the bounder she thought she'd killed when he tried to rape her back in Ireland.For good measure, Bowen (For the Love of Mike, 2003, etc.) tosses in a typhoid scare, an illegitimacy, the Black Hand, the Orphan Train, enough upstairs/downstairs door-slamming for a French farce and her heroine's love life, overdone as a Victorian valentine.Author tour Copyright Kirkus 2005 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2005 February #1
In the summer of 1902 while New York City is gripped in the wave of a typhoid epidemic, PI Molly Murphy (Murphy's Law) is hired to work undercover in the upstate home of a state senator whose wife has come under the influence of two female spiritualists. At stake are fraud, an unsolved kidnapping, and murder. An inviting historical series. Agatha Award-winner Bowen lives in California. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2005 February #4
In Bowen's absorbing, well-plotted fourth entry in this Agatha Award-winning historical series (after 2003's For the Love of Mike), Molly Murphy's former beau, policeman Daniel Sullivan, arranges for Molly to leave New York City (and the rapidly spreading typhoid epidemic of 1902). The police are interested in the Sorensons, a pair of sisters working as spiritualists, whom they want to expose as fakes. Molly joins the upstate household of Sen. Barney Flynn, posing as one of his numerous cousins recently arrived from Ireland. Flynn's wife, Theresa, has invited the Sorensons to the Flynns' Hudson River estate because she wants to make contact with her missing son, presumed dead after disappearing in a kidnapping attempt several years before. Molly also plans to investigate what happened to the Flynns' son at the behest of the child's nurse, who was implicated in the crime but still proclaims her innocence. Determined to get at the truth, the redoubtable Molly has to confront a dark part of her own past before this complex tale comes to a bittersweet and heartfelt conclusion. Agent, Meg Ruley at Jane Rotrosen Agency. Author tour. (Mar. 17) FYI: Bowen is also the author of the Constable Evans series,including Evan's Gate (Forecasts, Mar. 29, 2004), which is a best novel finalist for an Edgar this year. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
