基本信息出版社：Minotaur Books
页码：272 页
出版日期：2007年03月
ISBN：0312328192
International Standard Book Number：0312328192
条形码：9780312328191
EAN：9780312328191
版本：1st
装帧：精装
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Molly Murphy Mysteries
内容简介 Molly Murphy’s beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he’s still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has Molly in search of a little breathing room when providence steps in in the form of a proposition from New York City’s renowned theatrical impresario Tommy Burke.
America has been very good to Tommy, and now that he’s getting on in years, he’d like to pass some of that good fortune on to his family back in Ireland. That’s, of course, if Molly can find the long-lost baby sister his family left in the care of a parish priest when they fled the famine and avoid the warrant out for her arrest that forced Molly to flee herself. Tempted by the prospect of going home for the first time in years and putting her fledging detective agency on firm financial ground, Molly throws caution to the wind and climbs aboard the White Start Liner Majestic with hopes of sneaking on and off the isle without raising a peep.
But even before Molly lands on the other side of the Atlantic, Broadway’s leading actress, Oona Sheehan, has gone missing from the ship, and her maid is found dead in her cabin. Full of rich historic detail and enchanting turn-of-the-century personalities, Molly’s return home, In Dublin’s Fair City, is the sixth thrilling installment in Rhys Bowen’s award-winning Molly Murphy series.
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“Bowen parcels out bits of her plot with an impeccable sense of timing and...has written another outstanding mystery.” ---Library Journal on Oh Danny Boy Molly Murphy’s beau Captain Daniel Sullivan may be out of jail on bail, but he’s still a ways from clearing his name, and his foul mood has Molly in search of a little breathing room when providence steps in in the form of a proposition from New York City’s renowned theatrical impresario Tommy Burke.
America has been very good to Tommy, and now that he’s getting on in years, he’d like to pass some of that good fortune on to his family back in Ireland. That’s, of course, if Molly can find the long-lost baby sister his family left in the care of a parish priest when they fled the famine and avoid the warrant out for her arrest that forced Molly to flee herself. Tempted by the prospect of going home for the first time in years and putting her fledging detective agency on firm financial ground, Molly throws caution to the wind and climbs aboard the White Start Liner Majestic with hopes of sneaking on and off the isle without raising a peep.
But even before Molly lands on the other side of the Atlantic, Broadway’s leading actress, Oona Sheehan, has gone missing from the ship, and her maid is found dead in her cabin. Full of rich historic detail and enchanting turn-of-the-century personalities, Molly’s return home, In Dublin’s Fair City, is the sixth thrilling installment in Rhys Bowen’s award-winning Molly Murphy series.
作者简介 Rhys Bowen’s novels have received a remarkable number of awards and accolades, including the Anthony and Agatha Awards for mystery as well as the Herodotus Award and the Bruce Alexander Historical Award. Rhys is also the author of the Edgar Award nominated Evan Evans series. Born in England, she now lives in San Rafael, California, with her husband. Visit her Web site at http://jqh.home.netcom.com.
媒体推荐 Praise for Rhys Bowen
“A lot of fun and some terrific historical writing. Fans of the British cozy will love it, and so will readers of historical fiction.”---Toronto Globe and Mail on Oh Danny Boy
“Bowen parcels out bits of her plot with an impeccable sense of timing and...has written another outstanding mystery.”---Library Journal on Oh Danny Boy
“Its enjoyable charm and wit will appeal to a cross-section of mystery fans.”---Baltimore Sun on Oh Danny Boy
“It’s hard not to be charmed by this young immigrant woman who fled murder charges in Ireland to become a detective in turn-of-the-century New York.” ---Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on In Like Flynn
“Molly grows ever more engaging against a vibrant background of New York’s dark side at the turn of the century.”---Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on For the Love of Mike
“It’s always a delight to discover a new book from the pen of Rhys Bowen.”---Tampa Tribune & Times on Murphy’s Law
专业书评 From Publishers Weekly
Set in 1903, Bowen's sixth brisk Molly Murphy historical (after 2006's Oh Danny Boy) takes the Irish immigrant to New York City back to the Emerald Isle for an assignment to find a theater impresario's long-lost sister, left behind when his family fled the potato famine 50 years earlier. Even though Molly had left Ireland under a cloud of suspicion herself, she bids a temporary farewell to her beau, New York police captain Daniel Sullivan. The voyage begins auspiciously when a famous actress offers Molly her first class stateroom, but Molly's discovery of a corpse in her sumptuous bed is only the beginning of a complicated, dangerous journey. In Dublin, she becomes embroiled in the Irish struggle for freedom and finds herself a target for murder. With a riveting plot capped off by a dramatic conclusion, Bowen captures the passion and struggles of the Irish people at the turn of the 20th century. (Mar.)
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Praise for Rhys Bowen
“A lot of fun and some terrific historical writing. Fans of the British cozy will love it, and so will readers of historical fiction.”---Toronto Globe and Mail on Oh Danny Boy
“Its enjoyable charm and wit will appeal to a cross-section of mystery fans.”---Baltimore Sun on Oh Danny Boy
“It’s hard not to be charmed by this young immigrant woman who fled murder charges in Ireland to become a detective in turn-of-the-century New York.” ---Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on In Like Flynn
“Molly grows ever more engaging against a vibrant background of New York’s dark side at the turn of the century.”---Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on For the Love of Mike
“It’s always a delight to discover a new book from the pen of Rhys Bowen.”---Tampa Tribune & Times on Murphy’s Law
From Booklist
Molly Murphy, Bowen's plucky early-twentieth-century private investigator, sails back home to Ireland to find a woman who is in line for a large inheritance. But the investigatory work starts earlier than she expects when, onboard ship, a young woman is murdered and another woman, an actress, disappears. The plot thickens upon docking in Ireland, when Molly discovers her own brother trying to collect the missing actress' luggage, which contains a substantial supply of firearms. Further thickening ensues as Molly learns that someone else is trying to find the missing woman and will do whatever it takes to make sure Molly is out of the picture. A plot that feels more convoluted than it needs to be detracts slightly from the series' main strength: hanging out with the irrepressibly charming Molly. But this remains one of the most accessible and comfortably entertaining of all historical mystery series. David Pitt
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文摘 Chapter One Be careful what you wish for.” That was another of my mother’s favorite sayings—one of the few in her wealth of warnings that didn’t predict a bad end, hell fire, and eternal damnation. It was brought out any time I expressed my childhood ambitions to see Dublin one day, to dance at a ball like a real lady, to own a horse and carriage, or just to free myself from our dreary life in Ballykillin. The end of the sentence was rarely said, but always implied—“or you may get it.” Now it had finally come back to haunt me. My mother would undoubtedly be chuckling her head off in heaven, or wherever she was spending the hereafter. Ever since I’d arrived in New York and met Captain Daniel Sullivan, I suppose I had secretly nourished a hope that we could be together some day. Although I told myself that this would never happen, also that he was unreliable, two-faced, and all around bad news, I had never quite managed to put him out of my thoughts or my heart. And now it seemed I was being offered as much of Daniel Sullivan’s company as I ever wanted. More, in fact. Three weeks had gone by since his release from The Tombs on bail, and he was still charged with taking bribes from a gang member, being in the pay of a gang, and setting up an illegal prize fight. Since then he’d received no news on his future or his fate, although we now knew who had so carefully plotted his downfall. It was a horrible way to be living, to be sure—like walking on eggs—and Daniel wasn’t taking it well. He was used to being cock o’ the walk, a powerful man who commanded the respect of his colleagues among the New York police and who had connections to the Four Hundred—the highest-born families in town. Those weeks in The Tombs had taxed him physically and mentally so that he was now alternately moping or prowling
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