Named one of the top twenty books every Irish American should read by Irish CentralThe Civil War has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will spark the most devastating and de...
On the eve of the Union army's military draft, an opportunistic Irish-American hustler, a scheming Yankee stockbroker, a beautiful mulatto musical comedy star, and her minstrel lover come together during the Draft Riots. Reprint....
It’s just another murder, one of the hundreds of simple homicides in 1939: A spinster nurse is killed in her apartment; a suspect is caught with the murder weapon and convicted. Fintan Dunne, the P.I. lured onto the case and coerced by conscience i...
Judge Joe Crater's disappearance in 1930 spawned countless conspiracy theories and captured the imagination of a nation caught in the grip of The Depression. Fifteen years later, Fintan Dunne the detective encountered in Quinn's novel Hour of the...