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John D. MacDonald

 

John Dann MacDonald was a writer of crime and suspense stories many of which was based in his adopted home state of Florida. He was born in Sharon Pennsylvania on July 24, 1916 and died 70 years later on December 28, 1986.

He is best know for his 21 novels featuring salvage consultant Travis McGee.

About John D. MacDonald 

MacDonald was overseas during the second world war when he sent a story home to his wife. She submitted the story to the magazine story and it was published all before he was discharged. He didn't even know he was a published author.

When he arrived home he decided to try his hand as a story writer, this was the day of pulp magazines with hundreds of stories published each month. After many rejections his first story sold followed by many others.

By the beginning of the 1950's dime novels became a trend and he tried his hand at telling longer stories. Between his first in 1950, "The Brass Cupcake" and 1964 when he published the first Travis McGee story "The Deep Blue Goodbye" he published 42 novels, most of them crime thrillers and paperback originals.

He was also the author of four non-fiction titles, "The House Guest", a book about his pet cats, "No Deadly Drug" about the murder trial of Dr. Carl Coppolino, "Nothing Can Go Wrong" with Captain John H. Kilpack about a cruise he took in 1977 and a collection of letters between him and Dan Rowan, of Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In.

Travis McGee 1-5 

Deep Blue Good-by

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Nightmare in Pink (Travis McGee, No. 2)

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A Purple Place for Dying (Travis McGee, No. 3)

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Quick Red Fox (Travis McGee, No. 4)

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Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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Travis McGee 6-10 

Bright Orange for the Shroud

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Darker Than Amber (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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One Fearful Yellow Eye

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Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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Travis McGee 11-15 

Dress Her in Indigo

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The Long Lavender Look (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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The Scarlet Ruse

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Turquoise Lament

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Travis McGee 16-20 

The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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Empty Copper Sea

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Green Ripper (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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Free Fall in Crimson

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Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries)

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McGee 21 and 4 others 

Lonely Silver Rain (Travis McGee Series)

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Cape Fear (Formerly Titled the Executioners)

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Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything

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The Good Old Stuff

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One More Sunday

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