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Peter Quinn The Man Who Never Returned
April 26 Overlook TP 2011 159020641X / 9781590206416 Paperback New Ships in 10-14 Days, After Release date*
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Pre-Order Now And Save ..... In August 1930, New York State Supreme Court Judge Joseph Crater left a Manhattan restaurant and was never seen again. Less than a year after the crash of the stock market, Crater became the embodiment of the fears, and perhaps the frail hopes, of Americans facing the Great Depression and soon to face WWII and the cold war. Was Crater rubbed out by the Mob, or did he simply disappear to find happiness as an ordinary Joe? Twenty-five years later, a Rupert Murdoch-like newspaper publisher hires private investigator Fintan Dunne to do what the NYPD couldn't do: solve the mystery of Crater's disappearance. Freely mixing history, mystery, and novelistic license, Quinn offers a noirish tale of Tammany Hall politics, sex, crime, Broadway moguls, and cops, populated by more than a dozen interesting characters. Dunne's detection seems to come a bit too easily, but Quinn's rich, insightful, evocative descriptions of New York, both in Crater's time and in 1955, will certainly please fans of historical crime novels. 9781590206416 0.00
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