Author Signing - Book Revue

PETER QUINN

Tuesday, December 7th, 7pm
Historical mystery novelist PETER QUINN will speak about and sign his new novel, The Man Who Never Returned.

On the sultry evening of August 6, 1930, in the first summer of the Great Depression, Joseph Force Crater, recently appointed a justice of the New York State Supreme Court by Governor Franklin Roosevelt, bid two dinner companions good night and hailed a cab. Off he went into history, myth, and urban legend. Now, eighty years later, Judge Crater’s disappearance remains one of the most enduring and fascinating unsolved mysteries in the chronicles of Gotham.

In The Man Who Never Returned Peter Quinn brings back Fintan Dunne, the relentless, skeptical ex-cop/detective from Hour of the Cat, an puts him on the Crater case. The year is 1955, the silver anniversary of the Judge’s vanishing and a last golden moment for solving the puzzle before the people and clues follow Crater into the
fast-receding past. In a search full of unexpected twists, Dunne uncovers the shocking truth.

Peter Quinn is the author of two novels, Hour of the Cat and Banished Children of Eve, and an acclaimed collection of essays, Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America. He served as chief speech writer for New York Governors Hugh Carey and Mario Cuomo. As well as publishing articles and reviews in The New York Times, Wilson
Quarterly, American Heritage and other publications, Quinn has been a commentator in Ric Burn’s New York: A Documentary Film; the Academy Award-nominated Passion of St. Rose; and The American Experience: Stephen Foster. He co-wrote McSorley’s New York, which won a local Emmy, and was an advisor for Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York.
Born, raised, and educated in the Bronx, he now lives in Hastings-on-Hudson.