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Jan 8, 2013 · In A Deadly Shade of Gold, McGee comes into possession of an evil-looking, solid gold Aztec icon that leads to a perilous fortune. Reader Darren McGavin, who narrates the entire series for Random Audio, employs a world-weary, laid-back voice that is perfect for the enigmatic McGee.
Mar 12, 2013 · When Sam left his girlfriend, Nora, and vanished from Fort Lauderdale, no one was surprised. But when he shows up three years later lying in a pool of his own blood, people start to ask questions. And his old friend Travis McGee is left to find answers.
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- John D. MacDonald
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- Random House Trade Paperbacks
Published in 1965, A Deadly Shade of Gold is the fifth Travis McGee mystery by John D. MacDonald. Most of the book takes place far from Bahia Mar in Fort Lauderdale as McGee is pulled in to investigating the murder of an old friend named Sam Taggart which takes him to Manhttan, to a backwater Mexican resort town on the Sea of Cortez and then ...
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- 1965
- John D. MacDonald
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A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965) is the fifth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. The plot revolves around a solid gold Aztec statuette, and takes McGee from his home of Florida to Mexico and Los Angeles.
- John D. MacDonald
- 1965
Mar 12, 2013 · From the master of crime fiction, for the first time ever in trade paperback and eBook, comes A Deadly Shade of Gold, the fifth Travis McGee novel, in a handsome new package.
Travis McGee Series by John D. MacDonald. 21 primary works • 30 total works. Travis McGee, an adventurer, philosopher, and “salvage consultant” who does unofficial favors for friends, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Each book in the series is a whole story with a beginning and an ending, however there are references to prior stories in the series.
Taggart shows McGee one of a large set of solid gold figurines he came by fairly honestly when down in Mexico, and wants McGee to help him recover the rest. Soon Taggart is out of the picture, brutally murdered in a cheap motel room with a knife.
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