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Travis McGee is a fictional character, created by American mystery writer John D. MacDonald. McGee is neither a police officer nor a private investigator; instead, he is a self-described "salvage consultant" who recovers others' property for a fee of 50 percent. McGee appeared in 21 novels, from The Deep Blue Good-by, first published in 1964 ...
Darker Than Amber (1970) Rod Taylor plays Travis McGee in the only big-screen adaptation of one of John D. MacDonald's 21-book series about the boat-bum hero. Travis McGee is a Korean War veteran, a former college football player and a dropout from conventional society. He lives in Fort Lauderdale aboard a 52-foot houseboat called The Busted ...
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May 6, 2022 · The saving grace of this novel is a terrifying ending where we get to see another side of Meyer. #18. The Empty Copper Sea (1978) After basically writing at least one McGee adventure per year since the early 1960s, MacDonald took a four-year break before penning his last four novels, beginning with this one.
7/10. Under-rated Cool Film of the Era! shepardjessica 14 August 2004. This "Tough as nails" John MacDonald novel was filmed at the perfect time in American Film History. Rod Taylor (an Aussie) who starred in many American films (as well as high support in GIANT and others) plays Travis MaGee, the lead, with the beautiful, intelligent and ...
Darker than Amber. Darker than Amber (1966) is the seventh novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. [1] The plot begins when McGee and his close friend Meyer are fishing underneath a bridge and a young woman, bound and weighted, is thrown over the bridge. It was adapted into a 1970 film of the same name .
- John D. MacDonald
- 1966
- 1966
- Mystery
May 31, 1995 · The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper. A Travis McGee Novel. John D. MacDonald - Mar 09, 1996 (first published in 1968) Goodreads Rating. 4.1 (5k) Mystery & Crime Fiction. In The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper, hard-boiled detective Travis McGee is asked to investigate why a young woman keeps trying to kill herself.
The Deep Blue Good-by is the first of 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald. [2] Commissioned in 1964 by Fawcett Publications editor Knox Burger, the book establishes for the series an investigative protagonist in a residential Florida base. All titles in the 21-volume series include a color, a mnemonic ...
