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Pub. Date
c1998
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Crime reporter Molly Cates, having spent years trying to prove that her father's death was not a suicide, is faced with a moral dilemma when she finally learns the truth; and her troubles multiply when she meets a homeless woman who claims to have knowledge of a secret plot to kill everyone in the Texas legislature.
6) Murphy's Law
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 1
Description
Fleeing a false accusation of murder in Ireland, Molly Murphy becomes involved in another murder case when the man who was harrassing her on the boat to America turns up dead also.
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 2
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In this second series title (after Murphy's Law), Irish immigrant Molly becomes an apprentice P.I. Unfortunately, she's soon investigating the murder of her boss-with a little help from a likable police detective. An authentic historical about New York in the early 1900s.
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Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
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Series
Molly Moon volume 2
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Believing that she has been sent to Los Angeles by her librarian friend, Lucy Logan, to stop an evil plot by the wealthy Primo Cell, Molly Moon and her friend Roger, orphans with unusual hypnotic powers, find themselves in danger from an unsuspected source.
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Pub. Date
2005
Description
Justice Sidney Piggott was, everyone in Dublin's law professions agreed, designer-made for being throttled. If ever there was a judge more disliked, make that hated, in the courts of Ireland's capital city, no one knew his (or her) name. So, when it comes to finding out who is responsible for the judge's demise, the number of possible suspects makes the task more difficult.
However, Inspector Denis Lennon and his sergeant, Molly Power, are given...
11) In like Flynn
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In 1902 New York, Molly agrees to expose a pair of spiritualist sisters, hired by the wife of a senator hoping to contact her dead son, who was kidnapped years before. After a seance, Molly isn't sure the sisters are fakes, but she's certain police bungled the kidnapping case.
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Molly Moon volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Molly Moon, reunited with her parents, is hypnotized by a mysterious turbaned gardener and eventually transported to India, where she meets not only a maharajah with a speech defect but also former versions of herself.
13) Oh Danny Boy
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Series
Molly Murphy mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Irish immigrant-turned-private detective Molly Murphy comes to the aid of handsome NYPD captain Daniel Sullivan, who has been arrested for accepting bribes, in a mystery set in early twentieth-century New York.
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 6
Description
Searching for the long-lost sister of an Irish-American impresario, P.I. Molly Murphy leaves turn-of-the-century New York to head back to her native Ireland, only to be confronted by the murder of her maid and the disappearance of a famed Irish actress.
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Molly Moon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Molly Moon's hypnotic eyes give her the power to stop the world and travel through time. Now Molly makes a stunning new discovery - she's a mind reader! But can her incredible talents help to rescue her lost twin from future? And will Molly be a match for the maniacal Princess Fang and her crazy mind machine?
16) The magic half
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
With older twin brothers on one side and younger twin sisters on the other, Miri feels left out in her own family. But one afternoon, in her tiny attic bedroom, Miri finds a mysterious piece of glass. And when she peeks through it, something strange happens. Miri is suddenly face-to-face with Molly, a girl just her age but from the past, a girl that insists this is her room and that Miri has come to save her. This is the something special both Miri...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
"It's wintertime in New York, and for the first time since Irish immigrant Molly Murphy started her early-twentieth-century detective agency, she is completely snowed in with work. While she's proving to be quite the entrepreneur and is very much in demand by some of Broadway's brightest stars and Fifth Avenue's richest families, she has to grudgingly admit that if she's going to work more than one case at a time, then shes going to need some help....
18) In a Gilded Cage
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"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 women's 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...
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Molly Murphy mysteries volume 9
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After an illusionist on stage saws into his assistant, Harry Houdini's wife hires Molly Murphy to be part investigator/part bodyguard and uncover whether NYC's masters of illusion are simply up to their tricks or if there truly is something much more treacherous going on.
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Series
Molly Moon volume 5
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Having acquired the skill of morphing, Molly Moon can inhabit any creature she wants but, unless she can find the ancient book of hypnotism in time, she risks never getting back into her own body.