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The Man Who Never Returned (Fintan Dunne #2)
by
Peter Quinn
Judge Joe Crater¹s 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 Quinn¹s 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 o...more
Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne the detective encountered in Quinn¹s 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 o...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
August 5th 2010
by Overlook Hardcover
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As a boomer, I think my introduction to the mystery of the disappearance of Judge Joe Crater came during, of all things, "Laugh In." As a Chicago guy, I'd never heard of the NY state justice who vanished in 1930.
Was it posterboard signs that read lines like "Judge Crater, call home" where I'd first learned of this well-known missing person case?
Whatever, "The Man Who Never Returned" is a good mystery that like all good mysteries keeps you turning pages wondering what happened to Crater.
Author Pe...more
Was it posterboard signs that read lines like "Judge Crater, call home" where I'd first learned of this well-known missing person case?
Whatever, "The Man Who Never Returned" is a good mystery that like all good mysteries keeps you turning pages wondering what happened to Crater.
Author Pe...more
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The four star rating I've given The Man Who Never Returned is actually an average of first and last halves of the book. The beginning was slow, and frankly a bit torturous, but finally, finally!, the second half took off like a rocket.
Judge Joe Crater's (unsolved to this day) case is one of the most famous missing person case, at least in New York, and probably the country. It ranks up there with Amelia Earhart's, which was only a few years later than the Judges.
Quinn gives us a "retired" dete...more
Judge Joe Crater's (unsolved to this day) case is one of the most famous missing person case, at least in New York, and probably the country. It ranks up there with Amelia Earhart's, which was only a few years later than the Judges.
Quinn gives us a "retired" dete...more
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I just cannot deal with a mystery novel that takes 150 pages to get to the actual investigating. I can understand wanting to make the detective a fully-realized character, but an author can do that while he solves a case (just look at Dorothy Sayers) instead of spending the first half of the book glazing over trips to NYC/LA/Cuba and way too much detail about the character's sex life. The actual mystery was very engaging, but the solution didn't hold up to scrutiny and relied too much on very co...more
This is a fictional account of the real life disappearance of Judge Joseph Forte Crater from the streets of NYC in 1930. Twenty-five years later, Fintan Dunne is hired to solve this cold case. Quinn does an excellent job describing the politics of the time period and describing New York as it underwent so much change. The actual mystery has never been solved, but Quinn comes up with a plausible story. Interesting and entertaining.
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LIke Quinn's previous book, Hour of the Cat, this has a wonderful time and place. I was able to suspend disbelief and feel that I was back in 1955 investigating the disappearance of Judge Crater with detective Fintan Dunne.
This book was a slow to get going but it was worth the mystery that has been presented. There are different sub stories in the book that you wonder, "what if such and such happened" The roles are clearly defined. I am not close to being half way through so the plot will only thicken in trying to find what mystery envelopes this tale of disappearance.
I finished this book and it proved to answer a small mystery rather than the big one of the missing Judge. This is a true story of a judge who went...more
I finished this book and it proved to answer a small mystery rather than the big one of the missing Judge. This is a true story of a judge who went...more
Entertaining take on one of history's unsolved disappearances -Judge Crater, 1930, totally okay to have no idea who he was.
This was a good read -- a fictional view of an historical event that provides answers to a decades-long mystery. Well done.
I think I bought the wrong book. I thought this was about something else...
Never finished.. Never returned.. Got lost in the details of the era.....
i loved this book, couldn't put it down. completely engrossing.
Noire History-Mystery. Setting in New York in the 50's interesting, as was the true story of a missing judge, which the author used as a basis of mystery story. Good, if you like that type of book.
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Peter Quinn is the author of the novel Banished Children of Eve (winner of an American Book Award) and previously served as speechwriter for New York governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. A third-generation New Yorker whose granparents were born in Ireland, he is currently Editorial Director for Time Warner and lives in Hastings, New York.
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