The Man Who Never Returned / / Peter Quinn.
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 intr...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Fintan Dunne Trilogy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (333 p.) |
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Table of 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
- New York City
- 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)
- New York City
- 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)
- New York City
- “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
- Playa de Oro, Florida
- Author’s Note