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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper - Paperback

by John D. MacDonald
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Availability:In StockContributor:John D. MacDonald, Lee Child (Introduction by)Series:Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback) #10Publish date:2013-06-18Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812984019ISBN-10:812984013UPC:9780812984019Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWCB5J45J
From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.

He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she's dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself. But what can a devil-may-care beach bum do for a young troubled mind?

McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, where he realizes pretty quickly that something's just not right. Not only has Maureen's doctor killed herself, but a string of murders and suicides are piling up--and no one seems to have any answers.

Just when it seems that things can't get any stranger, McGee becomes the lead suspect in the murder of a local nurse. As if Maureen didn't have enough problems, the man on a mission to save her will have to save himself first--before time runs out.

"The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author."--Jonathan Kellerman

Featuring a new Introduction by Lee Child
Language:EnglishPublisher:Random House TradeISBN-13:9780812984019ISBN-10:812984013UPC:9780812984019Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Mystery & Detective, ThrillersBook Topic:Hard-Boiled, SuspenseSize:7.90 x 5.10 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCWCB5J45J
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, "They pay me to do this! They don't realize, I would pay them." He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.
Publisher: Random House Trade

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John D. MacDonald, Lee Child (Introduction by)

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John D. MacDonald

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