"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
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John D. MacDonald July 24, 1916 to December 28, 1986 Born in Sharon, Pennsylvania & Died in Milwaukee, Wisconsin Creator of Travis McGee and one of the top two or three most gifted popular novelists of the 20th century. The man was a genius.
Quote "The only thing that prison demonstrably cures is heterosexuality."
Off-Site Resource An Appreciation Of John D. MacDonald From Jonathan Yardley
Bibliography The Travis McGee Novels The Deep Blue Goodbye - 1964 Nightmare in Pink - 1964 A Purple Place for Dying - 1964 The Quick Red Fox - 1964 A Deadly Shade of Gold - 1965 Bright Orange for the Shroud - 1965 Darker than Amber - 1966 One Fearful Yellow Eye - 1966 Pale Gray for Guilt - 1968 The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper - 1969 Dress Her in Indigo - 1969 The Long Lavender Look - 1970 A Tan and Sandy Silence - 1972 The Scarlet Ruse - 1973 The Turquoise Lament - 1974 The Dreadful Lemon Sky - 1975 The Empty Copper Sea - 1978 The Green Ripper - 1980 Free Fall in Crimson - 1981 Cinnamon Skin - 1982 The Lonely Silver Rain - 1985
Everything Not a Travis McGee Novel The Brass Cupcake - 1950 Murder for the Bride - 1951 Judge Me Not - 1951 Wine for the Dreamers - 1951 Ballroom of the Skies - 1952 The Damned - 1952 Dead Low Tide - 1953 The Neon Jungle - 1953 Cancel All Our Vows - 1953 All These Condemned - 1954 Area of Suspicion - 1954 Contrary Pleasure - 1954 A Bullet for Cinderella - 1955 Cry Hard, Cry Fast - 1955 You Live Once - 1956 April Evil - 1956 Border Town Girl - 1956 Murder in the Wind - 1956 Death Trap - 1957 The Price of Murder - 1957 The Empty Trap - 1957 A Man of Affairs - 1957 The Deceivers - 1958 Clemmie - 1958 Cape Fear - 1958 (originally titled The Executioners) Soft Touch - 1958 Deadly Welcome - 1959 Please Write for Details - 1959 The Crossroads - 1959 The Beach Girls - 1959 Slam the Big Door - 1960 The End of the Night - 1960 The Only Girl in the Game - 1960 Where is Janice Gantry? - 1961 One Monday We Killed Them All - 1961 A Key to the Suite - 1962 A Flash of Green - 1962 The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything - 1962 On the Run - 1963 The Drowner - 1963 The House Guests - 1965 End of the Tiger Other Stories - 1966 The Last One Left - 1967 S*E*V*E*N - 1971 Condominium - 1977 Other Times, Other Worlds - 1978 Nothing Can Go Wrong - 1981 The Good Old Stuff - 1982 One More Sunday - 1984 More Good Old Stuff - 1984 Barrier Island - 1986 A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967 to 1974 - 1986
An index of all author pages on Happy Dead Trees
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