John Dann MacDonald

The novel which introduced Travis McGee, godfather of all contemporary American crime series heroes.

The Deep Blue Goodbye

It's almost four in the morning when McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past. Carolyn Milligan desperately needs Travis to keep a package full of cash safe and sound. What's in it for him? Ten grand and no questions asked. She'll be back in a month. But two weeks later, Carrie dies in a roadside 'accident, ' leaving Travis with a fortune and a nagging conscience. Now he's obsessed with tracking down the mysterious truth about Carrie: what she was involved with, and why she had to die....

The Dreadful Lemon Sky

While on vacation in the Southwest, Travis McGee reluctantly agrees to help Mona Yeoman retrieve her estate from a wayward husband, only to become an eyewitness to her sudden death. Reissue.

A Purple Place for Dying

With an introduction by CARL HIAASEN JOHN D. MacDONALD "...the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." --STEPHEN KING "...a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer." --MARY HIGGINS CLARK "...a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character." --SUE GRAFTON "...my favorite novelist of all time." --DEAN KOONTZ "...the consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer." --JONATHAN KELLERMAN "...remains one of my idols." --DONALD WESTLAKE THE TRAVIS McGEE SERIES "...one of the great sagas in American fiction." --ROBERT B. PARKER "...what a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again." --ED McBAIN

Pale Gray for Guilt

Originally published: The executioners. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1957.

A Novel

Cape Fear

And Other Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine

Mystery for Christmas

The pleasures of life aboard the Busted Flush are interrupted by a murder that plunges Travis McGee into a nightmare where nothing is as it seems, including the Church of the Apocrypha which he must infiltrate to find the truth.

The Green Ripper

Five Complete Travis McGee Novels

Reading for Survival

Cancel All Our Vows

Murder for the Bride

A Gold Medal Original

Dead Low Tide

Dillon Bryant, a successful engineer, is off on assignment after finishing his honeymoon. But news from home comes that his new bride, Laura, a beautiful woman whom he had met only weeks before proposing marriage, is in deep trouble. By the time he gets to her, Laura has been murdered. Filled with grief and rage, he cannot leave it up to the police to solve the case - he wants his own kind of revenge against the killer ...

The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything

John H. Kilpack

A commentary about travel aboard an American cruise ship describes the last voyage of the S.S. "Mariposa," discussing the trip, passengers, shipboard lore, officials, and other anecdotes

Nothing Can Go Wrong

Original Title, A Bullet for Cinderella

On the Make

From the author of A Purple Place for Dying and The Deep Blue Good-by comes the republication of the bestseller starring Travis McGee, a real American hero. Reissue.

The Quick Red Fox

Travis McGee never shies away from damsels in distress. But this Eurasian beauty was different. When Travis and Meyer rescued her from the water, she had a block of cement wired to her feet, and she wasn't so much grateful as ready to snare them in a murder racket to end all murders.... "McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER

Darker Than Amber

Bright Orange for the Shroud

The Watchers, laboratory creatures living in a remote world with their dreams carried to the minds of earth men, must destroy the humans' plans of escaping from their planet and traveling through space

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