John D. MacDonald

A Purple Place for Dying finds Travis McGee witness to a murder he can't prove and a kidnapping nobody wants to believe....

How to you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend....

Now that Linda "Pidge" Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her....

Helena Pearson. Undeniably beautiful... indisputably rich... incredibly wanton... the perfect client for Travis McGee....

A Bullet for Cinderella is one of John D. MacDonald's earlier works but nonetheless is a brilliant piece of writing....

One evening a young woman shows up with a suitcase full of cash. Travis McGee agrees to be bagman....

He's a beach bum who won his houseboat in a card game. He only works when his cash runs out, and his rule is simple: he'll help you find whatever was taken from you, as long as he can keep half....

This time out, McGee comes close to losing his status as a living legend when he agrees to track down the killers who brutally murdered an ailing millionaire.

When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Evan, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys.....

On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss - and must outwit one of MacDonald's signature villains to save his life....

Cory has heard more than her fair share of odd requests as a high-class call girl, so this one’s right up her alley: pose as a journalist, seduce a visiting executive, and embarrass him....

A Flash of Green tells the gripping story of small-town corruption and two people brave enough to fight back....

For years, sultry Lysa Dean's name on a movie had meant a bonanza at the box office. Now a set of pictures could mean the end of her career....

Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps....

Nina - a career girl living alone in Manhattan - offers Travis McGee companionship and the first loose thread in the elaborate fabric of a gigantic swindle.....

When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist still grieving the loss of his wife, pays his old war buddy Troy Jamison a long overdue visit in Florida, he’s shocked at what he finds....

When an affluent tourist from Boston is murdered over a hefty collection of jewelry, Cliff finds himself wrapped up in a case that’s making national headlines....

Travis things he's in for a quiet summer until a walking zombie of a man, Arthur Wilkinson, stumbles aboard The Busted Flush....

When McGee picks up the phone and hears a voice from the past, he can't help it. He has to meddle....

The classic John D. MacDonald thriller about a Korean War vet searching for a stolen fortune in a small town....