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    The Man Who Never Returned: A Novel

    By Peter Quinn

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    “A dazzling story by a fine writer. Fintan Dunne is a memorable hero who you want to meet again and again” (James Patterson).
     
    Judge Joe Crater’s disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The Depression.
     
    Twenty-five years later, Fintan Dunne, the detective encountered in Quinn’s novel Hour of the Cat, recently retired and bored, answers a summons to New York where he is asked to solve the old case for a newspaper magnate only interested in making a profit from the story. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable.
     
    “In The Man Who Never Returned, Peter Quinn shapes a tantalizing tale around the enduring mystery of Judge Joseph Force Crater, whose disappearance remains a major mystery . . . This is noir fiction at its finest.” —William Kennedy, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Ironweed
     
    “A masterful and evocative tale, set in a beautifully rendered 1950s New York, it combines true crime with vivid imagining. This is that rare book: A first-rate thriller that seamlessly weaves together page-turning narrative with richly detailed characters whose motivations—complex, suspect, hidden—always ring true.” —Thomas Kelly, author of A Testament of Devotion
     
    “Peter Quinn brings wit, panache and a deep knowledge of the Big Apple to his latest Fintan Dunne novel . . . A taut thriller.” —T. J. English, New York Times–bestselling author of Whitey’s Payback
     
    “An utterly compelling story . . . Gripping from the first page to the last, Peter Quinn creates a unique and utterly believable world, part history, part fiction.” —Gabriel Byrne, Golden Globe Award–winning actor
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateMay 3, 2011
    ISBN9781468304718
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    The Man Who Never Returned: A Novel
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    Peter Quinn

    Peter Quinn is a novelist, political historian, and foremost chronicler of New York City. He is the author of Banished Children of Eve, American Book Award winner; Looking for Jimmy: In Search of Irish America; and a trilogy of historical detective novels—Hour of the Cat, The Man Who Never Returned, and Dry Bones.

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    • 4/5
      A history mystery...If you love the line between fact and fiction to be a hair's breadth, a deep plunge into a past era's mindset and atmosphere, and you crave the seduction of a real-life mystery then The Man Who Never Returned by Peter Quinn should be on your to be read list.Based on the 1930 disappearance of Judge Joe Carter, a possible key figure in a judicial corruption investigation, this noirish tale revolves around the 1950's investigation of the case by Fintan Quinn.Quinn, a recently retired private investigator, is called back to New York by a newspaper magnate that wants to build the launch of his media empire on the sensational reveal of the mystery's solution. The anniversary of Carter's disappearance is only months away leaving Quinn with a looming deadline and a challenge that his ego just can't resist. A cast of characters from the bedridden mogul to corrupt politicians and fallen Broadway showgirls litter Quinn's path as he examines the usual suspects. Isn't it always booze, broads, and bribery?
    • 3/5
      The reviews of The Man Who Never Returned were really good so maybe I was expecting too much. I thought the book was OK. Not much action. Not much charaacter study. A routine procedural (not much procedure either) about a private investigator, Fintan Dunne, looking into the unsolved disappearance of Judge Joseph Force Crater in 1930.Crater exited a restaurant in New York one evening in August 1930, got into a cab and was never seen or heard from again. Quinn takes this event and weaves a tale of murder. While the plot was interesting, the book never got to the "I can't put it down" stage.
    • 3/5
      A good detective novel. The author does a great job of leading us through the facts uncovered and how the main character finally unravels the mystery. The historical setting and characters are authentic. There is one flaw in the plot that bothers me, but I won't ruin the story for you by trying to explain it.