Banished Children of Eve, a novel of America struggling to become a melting pot, marks the debut of a gifted storyteller. It is New York City, the time of the Civil War. The war has just entered its third bloody year, and the North is about to impose its first military draft, a decision that will...
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 into unraveling the complex setup that has put an...
DUNNE stood in the library hall beside the same backless marble bench on which he’d left Bassante the previous day. “‘Luck is fate’s knuckleball. It has a will of its own.’ So an OSS colleague once opined to me.” Bassante dangled his hat between his knees. Dunne studied the thinning weave of gray...
It’s something I’m reminded of regularly by customers who have lost their job over the last couple of years since the ‘Celtic Tiger’ collapsed and died, leaving us to foot the bill for his extravagant lifestyle. But, recession or not, hair continues to grow, barbers keep cutting and where there a...
And de white folks will take me to be Santa Anna Hey get along, get along Jose, Hey get along Jim, along Joe! A refrain Dunne couldn’t get rid of. Over and over it ran through his mind. A deckhand on the ferry from Brooklyn whistled the tune, and the words floated up from ...