Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Closing Time: The True Story of the Goodbar Murder Closing Time: The True Story of the "Goodbar" Murder is a 1977 book by Lacey Fosburgh about the murder of Roseann Quinn, a young New York City schoolteacher who reportedly led a "double life" and was murdered in 1973. Fosburgh appropriated the title of Judith Rossner's "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", the acclaimed best-selling novel which had been published two years earlier. "Closing Time" was nominated for the 1978 Edgar Award as Best Fact Crime book, despite Fosburgh's mixing of fact and fiction in a controversial technique she referred to as "interpretive
They Knew Mr. Knight (novel) Telegraph" called the novel a "real treat." The novel was adapted into a 1946 film of the same title directed by Norman Walker and starring Mervyn Johns, Joan Greenwood and Alfred Drayton. They Knew Mr. Knight (novel) They Knew Mr. Knight is a 1934 dramatic novel by the British writer Dorothy Whipple. Tom Blake, a factory worker, becomes involved with a shady financier known as Mr. Knight. Guided by Knight, Blake becomes involved in series of bad investments and fraud. He is arrested and sent to jail. On his release, Blake has to come to terms with the difficult prospect