Not very many pages into Peter Quinn’s latest mystery I began to fantasize about who might play its flawed hero, Fintan Dunne, in the movie version. Alas, William Powell is dead, and no other names came to mind. The book is a real thriller, a nicely hard-boiled valentine to New York City that would make a great movie. Quinn uses his gifts as a historian and novelist to explor (...)
March 11, 2011
Books
Hard-boiled Valentine
The Man Who Never Returned Peter QuinnThe Overlook Press, $24.95, 333 pp.
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