A Purple Place for Dying

• Author : John D. MacDonald
• Publisher : Fawcett
• Release : 03 August 1995

While on vacation in the Southwest, Travis McGee reluctantly agrees to help Mona Yeoman retrieve her estate from a wayward husband, only to become an eyewitness to her sudden death. Reissue.

• Author : John Dann MacDonald
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 August 1970

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 August 2021

• Author : John D MacDonald
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 11 April 2013

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILD Travis McGee isn’t your typical knight in shining armour. 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. 32-year-old Mona is in love with a poor, young college professor, but is trapped in a marriage with a wealthy businessman

• Author : John Dann MacDonald,Peter Driscoll,John Stephen Cleary
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 August 1981

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 03 August 1997

• Author : John D MacDonald
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 18 July 2013

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILD Travis McGee isn’t your typical knight in shining armour. 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. Discover Travis McGee with this special collection of the first three titles of John D. MacDonald’s classic series. The Deep

• Author : Grant McKenzie
• Publisher : Polis Books
• Release : 19 September 2016

For one man, the past will never stay buried. Ian Quinn has spent his life protecting children from the monsters that live among us. As a Child Protection Officer, Ian places their lives above his own, and has no qualms about getting his hands dirty when it comes to protecting those who can't protect themselves. Years ago, Ian was unable to protect his own daughter when she was killed, and has channeled the anger and sadness into his vocation. Ian

• Author : Steve Glassman,Maurice J. O'Sullivan
• Publisher : Popular Press
• Release : 03 August 2021

When Joe Leaphorn and Jim Chee, Tony Hillerman s oddly matched tribal police officers, patrol the mesas and canyons of their Navajo reservation, they join a rich traditon of Southwestern detectives. In Crime Fiction and Film in the Southwest, a group of literary critics tracks the mystery and crime novel from the Painted Desert to Death Valley and Salt Lake City. In addition, the book includes the first comprehensive bibliography of mysteries set in the Southwest and a chapter on

• Author : Lewis D. Moore
• Publisher : McFarland
• Release : 24 January 2015

The hard-boiled private detective is among the most recognizable characters in popular fiction since the 1920s—a tough product of a violent world, in which police forces are inadequate and people with money can choose private help when facing threatening circumstances. Though a relatively recent arrival, the hard-boiled detective has undergone steady development and assumed diverse forms. This critical study analyzes the character of the hard-boiled detective, from literary antecedents through the early 21st century. It follows change in the

• Author : Andrew Parkin
• Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
• Release : 03 August 2021

Journalist Paul Wills tells his friends Graham Curtis and Mary Rao about his strange experiences with the beautiful Kalitza, a mystery woman he encountered in Hong Kong and Europe. When Graham's wife is murdered, he gradually overcomes his grief with the help of his friends. Who is the mysterious Kalitza? Will Paul find her again and make love to her? Will secret agent Kim survive a grenade attack in a London hotel? Is her colleague, the grotesque Bruno, a double

• Author : John D. MacDonald
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 11 June 2013

Soft Touch, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. Jerry Jamison wants out. Out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job, the empty suburban rat race. Out of the whole infuriating merry-go-round of boredom and frustration his life has become. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man’s successful business. That was

• Author : John D MacDonald
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 01 August 2013

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILD Travis McGee isn’t your typical knight in shining armour. 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. When Travis McGee enters the prosperous town of Fort Courtney he quickly realises that something’s not quite right. Here to

• Author : Louis Filler
• Publisher : Popular Press
• Release : 03 August 1980

This collection of essays probes the values in a variety of authors who have had in common the fact of popularity and erstwhile reputation. Why were they esteemed? Who esteemed them? And what has become of their reputations, to readers, to the critic himself? No writer here has been asked to justify the work of his subject, and reports and conclusions about this wide variety of creative writers vary, sometimes emphasizing what the critic believes to be enduring qualities in

• Author : John D MacDonald
• Publisher : Random House
• Release : 04 July 2013

'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' LEE CHILD Travis McGee isn’t your typical knight in shining armour. 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. An ex-girlfriend of Travis McGee’s is convinced she’s being watched. Her late husband, a world-renowned neurosurgeon, converted his considerable