The Man Who Never Returned

Description

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. Fifteen 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 interested in making a profit. Dunne confronts haphazard investigating, aggrieved participants and a grieving spouse as he travels from New York to Los Angeles and Havana, untangling decades-old clues in an attempt to solve the mystery still baffling America. Peter Quinn once again has written a compelling blend of history and fiction that is simply unputdownable.

Peter Quinn is a full-time writer, having previously served as a speech-writer for two New York governors and as editorial director of Time Warner. He lives in New York.

This is noir fiction at its finest. -- William Kennedy The Man Who Never Returned is a dazzling story by a fine writer. Fintan Dunne is a memorable hero you want to meet again and again. -- James Patterson An utterly compelling story with a charismatic, flawed protagonist in Fintan Dunne. Gripping from the first page to the last, Peter Quinn creates a unique and utterly believable world. -- Gabriel Byrne