Publisher Review

'Dwyer Murphy's An Honest Living is the lawyer-book-collector noir you never knew you craved' -- Jonathan Lethem 'A witty, observant debut that's as much a love letter to New York as it is a slick noir' -- Andrea Bartz 'A smart and stylishly rendered ode to literature lovers everywhere' * Chicago Review of Books 'Must Read Books of July' * 'Murphy's hard-boiled rendering of the city is nothing short of exquisite... For anyone who wants a portrait of this New York, few recent books have conjured it so vividly' * New York Times * 'A deliciously smart PI novel set in New York's antiquarian book world that channels Chandler and Chinatown to take us into a recent past that already feels like a bygone era. A brisk, funny, and fabulous debut.' -Adrian McKinty, author of The Island