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A Purple Place for Dying: (Travis McGee: 3): an unputdownable and suspenseful thriller from the grandmaster of American crime fiction Kindle Edition
Let John D MacDonald - bestselling author and the inspiration behind a generation of crime writers - take you on a ride with this high-octane, all-action thriller. Jam packed with witty observation and unforgettable characters, and peppered with moments of refreshing introspection, this is perfect for fans of Lee Child, Michael Connelly and John Grisham.
'MacDonald had a huge influence on me . . . Reacher is like a fully detached version of Travis McGee' - LEE CHILD
'The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller' - STEPHEN KING
'To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.' - KURT VONNEGUT
'. . . my favourite novelist of all time' - DEAN KOONTZ
'Couldn't put it down' -- ***** Reader review
'Good page turner' -- ***** Reader review
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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 whom she is convinced is stealing from her trust fund. To get out, she does what any self-respecting woman would do: she hires someone to steal her money back so she can run away with the man she loves.
Travis McGee isn't sure he wants to help out...until he sees Mona shot dead on the cliffs near her cabin.
But when he arrives at the scene, her body is gone. And there's no trace of them ever having met.
Will Travis prove that what he saw was real, and unravel a complex murder web, in time to save his own skin?
FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1964, A PURPLE PLACE FOR DYING INCLUDES AN INTRODUCTION BY LEE CHILD.
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Further Praise for the Travis McGee series:
'The consummate pro, a master storyteller and witty observer . . . The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author and they retain a remarkable sense of freshness' - Jonathan Kellerman
'Travis McGee is my favourite fiction detective. He's great because he has a philosophical side - he will fight a bunch of mobsters in a car park and then have a muse about life, the universe and everything' - Tony Parsons
'A dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character . . . I envy the generation of readers just discovering Travis McGee' - Sue Grafton
'A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field' - Mary Higgins Clark
'What a joy that these timeless and treasured novels are available again' - Ed McBain
'There's only one thing as good as reading a John D. MacDonald novel: reading it again . . . He is the all-time master of the American mystery novel' - John Saul
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherTransworld Digital
- Publication dateApril 11, 2013
- File size4229 KB
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- ASIN : B00BJ82Y2E
- Publisher : Transworld Digital (April 11, 2013)
- Publication date : April 11, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 4229 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 218 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #798,317 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,199 in Suspense Action Fiction
- #2,947 in Crime Action & Adventure
- #3,123 in Hard-Boiled Mysteries (Kindle Store)
- Customer Reviews:
About the author
John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers.
MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was filmed twice as Cape Fear. In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels."
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I've given the book 4 stars because by comparison with modern thrillers of the same genre Travis Mcgee is a believable, consistent hero figure and the book is well written and easy to read . I find McGee a much more rounded and believable character than e.g.Charley Parker. John D MacDonald didn't find it necessary to pad out his stories with psychic phenomena, unbelievable coincidences and villains who are so violent as to be caricatures.
How clever is the key character. Too smart for words.
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Must be OK, I read all I bought :)
The writer is at his best in stories that take place in Florida, especially the boat scenes. I also highly recommend a non-McGee novel: The Last One Left, 350 pages and interesting characters and side stories..