from mausergem

This is the first book of John MacDonald's, Travis MacGee mystery and thriller series. Travis is a "retriever", a person who gets back to you things and you don't want to go to the police, for a fee. He lives in Miami on a boat. In this book Travis is approached by Cathy who ia a friend of a frie...

from auntieknickers

All my mystery-reading life (about 52 years now if you count Nancy Drew), I've managed to avoid reading John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee stories -- and his other works as well. I'd certainly heard of them, I just thought I wouldn't care for them. Recently, I mentioned my discovery that MacDonald ...

from EBT1002

This was a re-read for me. I was addicted to the Travis McGee series in my late teens/early 20s. I still enjoyed it, but long for literature with a bit more meat. The descriptions of Florida are wonderful (I grew up there) and MacDonald writes a great action/suspense scene. And I find myself want...

from datrappert

Read this in one day. A perfect antidote for Peter Rabe's awful "Kill the Boss Goodbye". I have read perhaps 10 other MacDonald books, but I have been saving the McGee novels until I had the complete set. I'm still lacking one, but it is well into the sequence. This is typical MacDonald, with McG...

from ckNikka

Think 1964... 44 years ago... you have to get in the mid set of the author... it is not politcally correct writing but it is classic Noir... "Home is the Busted Flush", 52-foot barge type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale".... like 411 Baker Street the home of our Hero Travis McGee. Our...