Books by Peter Quinn and Complete Book Reviews
Peter Quinn, Author . Overlook $25.95 (400p) ISBN 9781585675975
Quinn (Banished Children of Eve
) illuminates New York City on the eve of WWII in his noir second novel. As Hitler's army encroaches on the Sudetenland and his doctors put the "science" of eugenics into practice, New York private dick...
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Peter Quinn, Author . Overlook $26.95 (283p) ISBN 978-1-58567-870-9
Quinn, author of the acclaimed The Banished Children of Eve
, has combined 22 (some never before published) essays in this entertaining and informative volume. The "Jimmy" in the title is actual plural: James Cagney, the swaggering Irish-Amer
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Peter Quinn, Overlook, $24.95 (336p) ISBN 978-1-59020-388-0
Quinn delivers a satisfying solution to the real-life mystery of Joseph Crater, a New York City judge who disappeared in 1930, in this stellar hard-boiled historical, a sequel to The Hour of the Cat (2005). In 1955, a New York newspaper magnate...
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Peter Quinn, Author Viking Books $22.95 (624p) ISBN 978-0-670-85076-1
This remarkably accomplished and ambitious first novel, by the chief speechwriter at Time Warner, is a historical saga set in a New York that is as vividly realized for its period (the Civil War) as Bonfire of the Vanities was for the 1980s. It also
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Peter Quinn, Author Penguin Books $28 (624p) ISBN 978-0-14-023003-1
Quinn's remarkably accomplished debut is a historical saga set in New York in the summer of 1863. (Mar.)
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Peter Quinn. Overlook, $25.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-4683-0736-8
A botched OSS operation propels Quinn’s well-constructed third thriller featuring Fintan Dunne (after 2010’s The Man Who Never Returned). Near the end of WWII, an assignment on the Eastern Front has Dunne attempting to contact Resistance fighters in
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