The Man Who Never Returned / Peter Quinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quinn, Peter, Author.

Series:

The Fintan Dunne Trilogy Series

The Fintan Dunne Trilogy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crater, Joseph Force, 1889---Fiction.

Crater, Joseph Force.

Crater, Joseph Force, 1889-.

New York (State)--New York.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Noir fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Peter Quinn’s The Man Who Never Returned is a noir-ish, stylized detective narrative set in 1950s New York. It follows Fintan, a retired detective turned private investigator who has been given the job of finding Judge Crater, who just went missing in 1930. Based on a real story, it is quite an intriguing tale that was even more so for people living at the time. The famous missing-person case is comparable to the Amelia Earhart missing-person case, though it could have been an even more interesting one. It was alleged that the missing judge may have had information about underhanded dealings in the New York judiciary. It was believed that if such information came to light, Franklin D. Roosevelt, then governor of New York, would have had a hard time becoming the president of the United States. There were also rumors that the judge, who was a known ladies’ man, had either decided to disappear or had fallen afoul of the mafia. Featuring hardboiled characters and a beautiful re-creation of New York from the ’50s, it is quite a compelling read.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Part I

Mystery of the Missing Person: An excerpt from Louis Pohl, Going, Going, Gone: Famous Disappearances in American History (Jersey City: The Wildcat Press, 1970)

New York City 1955

Part II

The Crater Chase: An excerpt from Louis Pohl, “Judge Crater, Please Call Your Office,” in Where in the World? A Collection of Unsolved Disappearances (San Francisco: The Conundrum Press, 1974)

New York City

Part III

Girls! Girls! Girls! Excerpt from Variety, July 30, 1930

Playa de Oro, Florida

Part IV

Crow the Cop: Excerpt from interview C-1487, NYPD Oral History Project: Captain John F. Cronin (ret.), NYPD 1929–1963, Missing Persons Bureau, Bureau Chief 1940–1963; conducted by Prof. Verlee Prybyloski, J.D., Fordham University School of Criminal Justice at Lincoln Center, September 5, 1966

Part V

Just the Facts: An excerpt from Erwin Schrödinger, What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell, with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992)

Part VI

Glad to Get Away: An excerpt from Sanford Teller and Richard Blaine, Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself: Myths and Legends of the Great Depression (New York: Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 1967)

“Bring Out Your Dead: West Side Remains Identified: No, They Don’t Belong to Judge Crater,” by Billy Sternberg, The Knickerbocker Journal: A Weekly Review of What’s New and Old in New York City, September 14, 1980

EPILOGUE

Author’s Note

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

ISBN:

9780823297986

9781531500825

OCLC:

1338021341