No job for a lady...
Having inherited the cases of her deceased mentor Paddy Reilly, private investigator Molly Murphy is following philandering husbands, tracking down runaway debutantes and working in a sweatshop to discover who is purloining dress designs. None of these jobs seem very dangerous… at first.
But then a woman’s body is fished out of the East River and Molly fears it is the missing society girl everyone is talking about. Then Molly’s sometimes beau, police captain Daniel Sullivan, reveals that another corpse may be the girl’s cheating lover, Mike Kelly. And now as the threads of passion and greed weave a tapestry of violence Molly finds she has to descend into the underworld of the gangs of New York and may need more than her street smarts to get to the truth… and get out alive.