About The Deep Blue Good-by. From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He’s also a knight-errant who’s wary of credit cards, retirement benefits, political parties, mortgages, and Author: John D. Macdonald. In The Deep Blue Good-By, the first in John D. MacDonald's legendary Travis McGee series, McGee seeks to retrieve a fortune in gems smuggled into the U.S. at the end of WWII by the father of his client, Cathy Kerr, a down-and-out dancer. Cathy's father died in /5(2K). The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel - Kindle edition by MacDonald, John D., Child, Lee. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading The Deep Blue Good-by: A Travis McGee Novel/5(2K).
My first impressions of John D. MacDonald his famous Travis McGee character, plus my thoughts on The Deep Blue Good-by. Buy The Deep Blue Good-By by John D MacDonald online at Alibris. We have new and used copies available, in 8 editions - starting at $ Shop now. John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape www.doorway.ru MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in , he won a National Book Award.
After reading all of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee books, I would say that The Deep Blue Good-By is the best way to meet the greatest character of the detective-story genre. Imagine the best qualities of Hammett's Continental Detective Agency Operative and Sam Spade, Chandler's Philip Marlowe, and Cussler's Dirk Pitt combined with a unique. From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Deep Blue Good-by is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Travis McGee is a self-described beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. The Deep Blue Good-by is the first of 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald. Commissioned in by Fawcett Publications editor Knox Burger, the book establishes for the series an investigative protagonist in a residential Florida base. All titles in the volume series include a color, a mnemonic device which was suggested by his publisher so that when harried travelers in airports looked to buy a book, they could at once see those MacDonald titles they had.
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