* indicates a Travis McGee story.
* The Brass Cupcake (Fawcett Gold Medal, October 1950) (color, but not a McGee)
* Murder for the Bride (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1951)
* Judge Me Not (Fawcett Gold Medal, October 1951)
* Weep for Me (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1951)
* Wine of the Dreamers (Greenberg, 1951)
* The Damned (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1952)
* Ballroom of the Skies (Greenberg, 1952)
* Dead Low Tide (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1953)
* The Neon Jungle (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1953)
* Cancel All Our Vows (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1953)
* Planet Of The Dreamers (Pocket Books, 1953)
* All These Condemned (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1954)
* Area of Suspicion (Dell First Edition 12, 1954)
* Contrary Pleasure (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1954)
* A Bullet for Cinderella (Dell First Edition 62, 1955) (reprinted as On the Make)
* Cry Hard, Cry Fast (Popular Library 675, 1955)
* April Evil (Dell First Edition 85, 1956)
* Border Town Girl (Popular Library 750, 1956) (reprinted as Five Star Fugitive)
* Murder in the Wind (Dell First Edition A113, 1956) (reprinted as Hurricane)
* You Live Once (Popular Library 737, 1956) (reprinted as You Kill Me)
* Death Trap (Dell First Edition A130, February 1957)
* The Price of Murder (Dell First Edition A152, October 1957)
* The Empty Trap (Popular Library 830, December 1957
* A Man of Affairs (Dell First Edition B112, December 1957)
* The Deceivers (Dell First Edition B117, May 1958)
* Clemmie (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1958)
* The Executioners (Simon and Schuster, 1958) (reprinted as Cape Fear)
* Soft Touch (Dell First Edition B121, August 1958)
* Deadly Welcome (Dell First Edition B127, March 1959)
* The Beach Girls (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1959)
* Please Write for Details (Simon and Schuster, December 1959)
* The Crossroads (Simon and Schuster, 1959)
* The Lethal Sex (Dell First Edition B141, 1959) (editor) (stories by women mystery
writers)
* Slam the Big Door (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1960)
* The Only Girl in the Game (Fawcett Gold Medal, July 1960)
* The End of the Night (Simon and Schuster, 1960)
* Where is Janice Gantry? (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1961)
* One Monday We Killed Them All (Fawcett Gold Medal s1177, December 1961)
* A Key to the Suite (Fawcett Gold Medal s1198, March 1962)
* The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything (Fawcett Gold Medal s1259, December
1962) (colour, but no McGee)
* A Flash Of Green (Simon and Schuster, 1962) (colour, but no McGee)
* I Could Go on Singing (Fawcett Gold Medal, March 1963) (screenplay novelization)
* On the Run (Fawcett Gold Medal k1292, April 1963)
* The Drowner (Fawcett Gold Medal k1302, May 1963)
* The Deep Blue Goodbye* (Fawcett Gold Medal k1405, April 1964)
* Nightmare in Pink* (Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1964)
* A Purple Place for Dying* (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1964)
* The Quick Red Fox* (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1964)
A Deadly Shade of Gold* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1965)
* Bright Orange for the Shroud* (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1965)
* * The House Guests (Doubleday, 1965) (nonfiction)
* Darker than Amber* (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1966)
* The Last One Left (Doubleday, December 1966)
* One Fearful Yellow Eye* (Fawcett Gold Medal d1848, December 1966)
* End of the Tiger and Other Stories (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966)
o "Hangover"
o "The Big Blue"
o "End of the Tiger"
o "The Trouble with Erica"
o "Long Shot"
o "Looie Follows Me"
o "Blurred View"
o "The Loveliest Girl in the World"
o "Triangle"
o "The Bear Trap"
o "Romantic Courtesy"
o "The Fast Loose Money"
o "The Straw Witch"
o "The Trap of Solid Gold"
o "Afternoon of the Hero"
* Pale Gray for Guilt* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1968)
* The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper* (Fawcett Gold Medal, December 1968)
* No Deadly Drug (Doubleday, 1968) (nonfiction)
* Dress Her in Indigo* (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1969)
* The Long Lavender Look* (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1970)
* S*E*V*E*N (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1971)
o "The Random Noise of Love"
o "Dear Old Friend"
o "The Willow Pool"
o "Quarrel"
o "Woodchuck"
o "Double Hannenframmis"
o "The Annex"
* A Tan and Sandy Silence* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1972)
* The Scarlet Ruse* (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1973)
* The Turquoise Lament* (Lippincott, November 1973)
* The Dreadful Lemon Sky* (Lippincott, February 1975)
* Condominium (Lippincott, March 1977)
* The Empty Copper Sea* (Lippincott, September 1978)
* Other Times, Other Worlds (Fawcett, 1978) (edited by MacDonald and Martin H. Greenberg; MacDonald wrote an afterword)
o "The Mechanical Answer"
o "Dance of a New World"
o "Ring Around the Redhead"
o "A Child is Crying"
o "Flaw"
o "But Not to Dream"
o "The Miniature"
o "Spectator Sport"
o "Half-Past Eternity"
o "The Big Contest"
o "Susceptibility"
o "Common Denominator"
o "Game for Blondes"
o "Labor Supply"
o "The Legend of Joe Lee"
o "The Annex"
* The Green Ripper* (Lippincott, September 1979)
* Free Fall in Crimson* (Harper and Row, April 1981)
* Nothing Can Go Wrong (Harper and Row, 1981) (with Captain John H. Kilpack)
* Cinnamon Skin* (Harper and Row, 1982)
* The Good Old Stuff (Harper and Row, 1982) (edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Francis M. Nevins, Jr., and Walter and Jean Shine)
o "Murder for Money"
o "Death Writes the Answer"
o "Miranda"
o "They Let Me Live"
o "Breathe No More"
o "From Some Hidden Grave"
o "A Time for Dying"
o "Noose for a Tigress"
o "Murder in Mind"
o "Check Out at Dawn"
o "She Cannot Die"
o "Dead on the Pin"
o "A Trap for the Careless"
* Two (Carroll and Graf, 1983) (collection)
* More Good Old Stuff (Knopf, 1984) (collection)
o "Deadly Damsel"
o "State Police Report That ..."
o "Death for Sale"
o "A Corpse in His Dreams"
o "I Accuse Myself"
o "A Place to Live"
o "Neighborly Interest"
o "The Night is Over"
o "Secret Stain"
o "Even Up the Odds"
o "Verdict"
o "The High Gray Walls of Hate"
o "Unmarried Widow"
o "You Remember Jessie"
* One More Sunday (Knopf, 1984)
* The Lonely Silver Rain* (Knopf, 1985)
* Barrier Island (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986)
* A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Roawan and John D. MacDonald 1967-74 (Knopf, 1986)
* Reading for Survival (Library of Congress, 1987)
Short Fiction
1946
* "Conversation on Deck" (The American Courier, January 1946)
* "The Game" (The American Courier, February 1946)
* "Cash on the Coffin" (Detective Tales, May 1946)
* "A Handful of Death" (Doc Savage, June 1946) (as Peter Reed)
* "Blame Those Who Die" (Short Stories, 25 June 1946)
* "Bury the Pieces!" (Dime Mystery, July 1946)
* "The Flying Elephants" (Short Stories, 10 July 1946)
* "Interlude in India" (Story, July-August 1946)
* "The Dry Mouth of Danger" (Doc Savage, August 1946)
* "The Dead Dream" (The Shadow, September 1946)
* "Justice in the Sun" (Doc Savage, October 1946)
* "Female of the Species" (Dime Detective, October 1946)
* "Get Dressed for Death" (Mammoth Mystery, October 1946)
* "The Little People" (Doc Savage, November 1946)
* "The Scarred Hand" (Doc Savage, November 1946) (as John Farrell)
* "The Startled Face of Death" (Doc Savage, November 1946) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "The Whispering Knives" (The Shadow, November 1946)
* "Coward in the Game" (Short Stories, 25 November 1946)
* "Private War" (Doc Savage, December 1946)
* "You Got to Have a Good Lip" (Esquire, December 1946)
* "Redheads Won't Wait" (The Shadow, December 1946) (as Peter Reed)
* "I Ain't So Dumb" (The Shadow, December 1946) (as Robert Henry)
* "A Bat in the Hall" (The Shadow, December 1946)
1947
* "Muddy Gun" (Best Stories, January 1947)
* "The Hands of an Artist" (The Shadow, January 1947)
* "The Fixed Smile of Death" (The Shadow, January 1947) (as Robert Henry).
* "The Bright Flash of Vengeance" (The Shadow, January 1947) (as Peter Reed)
* "Eight Dozen Agents." (Doc Savage, January 1947)
* "Hole in None" (Liberty, 4 January 1947)
* "Dead to the World" (aka "No Business for an Amateur") (Dime Detective, February 1947)
* "Bonded in Death" (Doc Savage, February 1947) (as Harry Rieser)
* "The Deadly Game of Darts" (Doc Savage, February 1947)
* "The Anonymous Letter" (The Shadow, February-March 1947)
* "Backlash" (The Shadow, February-March 1947) (as Peter Reed)
* "Nor Iron Bars" (Doc Savage, March-April 1947)
* "You've Got to Be Cold" (The Shadow, April-May 1947)
* "The Notched Ears" (Best Stories, May 1947)
* "The Pay-Off" (Cosmopolitan, May 1947)
* "Suicidal Journey" (Dime Detective, June 1947)
* "Crooked Circle" (Fight Stories (?), after June 1947)
* "The Pendans Box" (Bluebook, July 1947)
* "They Let Me Live" (Doc Savage, July-August 1947)
* "To Cut the Cards" (Doc Savage, July-August 1947) (as Peter Reed)
* "North on the Parkway" (Esquire, August 1947)
* "Never Marry Murder" (The Shadow, August-September 1947) (as Peter Reed)
* "Manhattan Horse Opera" (aka "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose") (Black Mask, September 1947)
* "Design for Dying" (Dime Detective, September 1947)
* "The Chinese Pit" (Doc Savage, September-October 1947)
* "The Gentle Killer" (?, after September 1947)
* "Oh, Give Me a Hearse!" (Dime Detective, October 1947)
* "Begin Again" (Liberty, November 1947)
* "My Mission Is Murder" (Dime Detective, November 1947)
* "Or the World Will Die" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947)
* "Second Visitor" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947) (as Peter Reed)
* "Worse Than Murder" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947) (as Henry Rieser)
* "That Old Grey Train" (Super Sports, November? 1947)
* "What About Alice?" (The Sign, December 1947)
* "Big John Fights Again" (Super Sports, December 1947)
* "Punch Your Way Home" (Sports Fiction, December 1947?)
1948
* "Even Up the Odds" (Detective Story Magazine, January 1948)
* "Come Die with Me!" (New Detective, January 1948)
* "Cosmetics" (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1948)
* "The Pastel Production Line" (Bluebook, February 1948)
* "Pickup" (Cosmopolitan, February 1948)
* "High Walls of Hate" (Dime Detective, February 1948)
* "With Soul So Dead" (Dime Detective, March 1948)
* "One Vote for Murder" (New Detective, March 1948)
* "Her Black Wings" (Shock, March 1948)
* "High Dive to Oblivion" (Dime Detective, April 1948)
* "The Corpse Rides at Dawn" (Ten-Story Western, April 1948)
* "The Spiralled Myth" (Spectator Club, April 1948)
* "The Mechanical Answer" (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1948)
* "Death Sleeps Here!" (New Detective, May 1948)
* "Blood of the Vixen" (Shock, May 1948)
* "Satan's Angel" (Shock, May 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "The Cold Trail of Death" (Doc Savage, May-June 1948)
* "The Tin Suitcase" (Doc Savage, May-June 1948) (as Peter Reed)
* "Homicidal Hiccup" (Detective Tales, June 1948)
* "Call Your Murder Signals!" (Dime Detective, June 1948)
* "Venomous Lady" (Shock, July 1948)
* "Sepulchre of the Living"(Shock, July 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "So Sorry" (Sports Fiction, July 1948)
* "Cavaliers Make Good Corpses." (Dime Detective, August 1948)
* "Loser Take All" (Sports Novels, August 1948)
* "Fatal Accident" (The Shadow, Fall 1948)
* "The Case of the Carved Model" (Black Mask, September 1948)
* "Nicky and the Tin Finger" (Bluebook, September 1948)
* "Red-Headed Bait" (Detective Tales, September 1948)
* "Scene of the Crime" (Detective Tales, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Just a Kill in the Dark" (New Detective, September 1948)
* "Trial by Fury" (New Detective, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Tune in on Station Homicide" (New Detective, September 1948) (as Peter Reed)
* "Dance of a New World" (Astounding Science Fiction, September 1948)
* "Runaway Cleats" (Sports Novels, September 1948)
* "Thunder King" (Sports Novels, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Shenadun" (Startling Stories, September 1948)
* "Deep Death" (Doc Savage, September-October 1948)
* "My Husband Dies Slowly" (Dime Detective, October 1948)
* "They Never Quit" (Sports Fiction, October 1948)
* "Death Is the Answer" (Thrilling Detective, October 1948)
* "That Mess Last Year" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948)
* "School for the Stars" (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1948)
* "Blonde Bait for the Murder Master" (Crack Detective Stories, November 1948)
* "Glory Blaster" (Sports Novels, November 1948)
* "Ring Around the Redhead" (Startling Stories, November 1948)
* "No Grave Has My Love" (Dime Detective, December 1948)
* "Buzz-Saw Belter" (New Sports, December 1948)
* "A Child Is Crying" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1948)
* "Successful Season" (?, 1948?)
* "When You Got a Pigeon" (The Shadow, December-January 1948-1949)
1949
* "Murder in Mind" (Mystery Book, Winter 1949)
* "Hot-Seat on the Aisle" (Detective Tales), January 1949)
* "Damsels of the Deep" (Dime Detective, January 1949)
* "Take the Bum Out!" (Fifteen Sports Stories, January 1949)
* "Three's a Shroud" (New Detective, January 1949)
* "Flaw" (Startling Stories, January 1949)
* "The Great Stone Death" (Weird Tales, January 1949)
* "Blackmail Breeds Bullets" (All-Story Detective, February 1949)
* "Killer's Nest" (Detective Tales, February 1949)
* "A Coffin a Day" (FBI Detective, February 1949)
* "Fight, Scrub, Fight!" (New Sports, February 1949)
* "Killing All Men!" (Black Mask, March 1949)
* "Kiss the Corpse Goodbye" (Black Mask, March 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "I'll Drown You in My Dreams" (Dime Detective, March 1949)
* "Danger -- Death Ahead!" (New Detective, March 1949)
* "Last Chance Cleats" (Sports Novels, March 1949)
* "A Corpse in His Dreams") (Mystery Book, Spring 1949)
* "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" (All-Story Detective, April 1949)
* "His Own Funeral" (Detective Tales, April 1949) (as John Lane)
* "The Corpse Belongs to Daddy" (Dime Detective, April 1949)
* "Loot for the Unlucky Lady" (FBI Detective, April 1949)
* "Death Quotient" (Super Science Stories, April 1949)
* "All Our Yesterdays" (Super Science Stories, April 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
* "Delusion Drive" (Super Science Stories, April 1949) (as Peter Reed)
* "Murder in One Syllable" (Black Mask, May 1949)
* "You'll Never Escape" (Dime Detective, May 1949)
* "Get Out of Town" (New Detective, May 1949)
* "Immortality" (Startling Stories, May 1949)
* "Somebody Has to Do the Job" (Toronto Star Weekly, 14 May 1949)
* "But Not to Dream" (Weird Tales, May 1949)
* "You Remember Jeanie" (Crack Detective Stories, May 1949)
* "Three Strikes -- You're Dead!" (All-Story Detective, June 1949)
* "Too Many Sinners" (Dime Detective, June 1949)
* "Make Mine Murder!" (FBI Detective, June 1949)
* "Like a Keepsake" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1949)
* "Death Is a Lap Ahead" (Adventure, July 1949)
* "Tank-Town Matador" (Argosy, July 1949)
* "Heritage of Hate" (aka "Triple Cross") (Black Mask, July 1949)
* "Swing-Time Sucker" (Detective Tales, July 1949)
* "A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting" (Dime Detective, July 1949)
* "The Glory Punch" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949)
* "Bye, Bye, Backfield" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
* "The Thunder Road" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as Peter Reed)
* "Blue Water Fury" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "The Cold, Cold Ground" (New Detective, July 1949)
* "The Hunted" (Super Science Stories, July 1949)
* "Bedside Murder" (Mystery Book, Summer 1949)
* "Trojan Horse Laugh" (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1949)
* "Looie Follows Me" (Collier's, 27 August 1949)
* "What Makes Sammy Laugh?" (Detective Tales, August 1949)
* "Amphiskios" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949)
* "Poor Little Rich Corpse" (Detective Tales, September 1949)
* "Murder Run-Around" (Dime Detective, September 1949)
* "Mad About Murder" (Dime Detective, September 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Six Points to Remember" (Fifteen Sports Stories, September 1949)
* "Dead -- As in Darling" (New Detective, September 1949)
* "A Condition of Beauty" (?, September 1949)
* "Minion of Chaos" (Super Science Stories, September 1949)
* "The Miniature" (Super Science Stories, September 1949) (as Peter Reed)
* "Blue Stars for a Dead Lady" (Detective Tales, October 1949)
* "Target for Tonight" (Dime Detective, October 1949)
* "Last Rendezvous" (Dime Mystery, October 1949)
* "Warrant for an Old Flame" (FBI Detective, October 1949)
* "A Young Man of Promise" (Argosy, November 1949)
* "The Durable Corpse" (Dime Detective, November 1949)
* "Run the Man Down" (Fifteen Sports Stories, November 1949)
* "Hang the Man High!" (Fifteen Western Tales, November 1949)
* "Half Past Mayhem" (New Detective, November 1949)
* "Appointment for Tomorrow" (Super Science Stories, November 1949)
* "The Sleepers" (Super Science Stories, November 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
* "Love, Inc." (Today's Woman, November 1949)
* "Case of the Burning Blonde" (Detective Tales, December 1949)
* "Take a Powder, Galahad!" (Dime Detective, December 1949)
* "Nine Coffins for Rocking H" (Dime Western, December 1949)
1950
* "Moonlit Sport" (The American Magazine, January 1950)
* "Swing and Slay" (Dime Detective, January 1950)
* "Stand Up and Slug!" (Fifteen Sports Stories, January 1950)
* "Stop, Look -- and Die!" (New Detective, January 1950)
* "The First One" (Startling Stories, January 1950)
* "Spin, Devil!" (Super Science Stories, January 1950) (as John Wade Farrell)
* "Spectator Sport" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950)
* "The Filly from Philly" (Toronto Star Weekly, 25 February 1950)
* "Man-Stalk" (Argosy, March 1950)
* "The Judas Chick" (Detective Tales, March 1950)
* "A Corpse on Me!" (Dime Detective, March 1950)
* "Fall Guy" (New Detective, March 1950)
* "The Ultimate One" (Super Science Stories, March 1950)
* "The Sitting Duck" (Detective Tales, April 1950)
* "Blood on the Midway" (Dime Detective, April 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Pigskin Patsy" (Fifteen-Story Detective, April 1950)
* "The Plunder Five" (New Sports, April 1950)
* "Journey for Seven" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950)
* "Portrait of a Murderess" (Detective Book Magazine, Spring 1950)
* "Breathe No More, My Lovely!" (Detective Tales, May 1950)
* "The Long, Red Night" (Detective Tales, May 1950) (as John Lane)
* "Night Watch" (Detective Tales, May 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Yes, Sir, That's My Slay-Babe!" (Dime Detective, May 1950)
* "Vanguard of the Lost" (Fantastic Adventures, May 1950)
* "Money Green" (Fifteen Sports Stories, May 1950)
* "This One Will Kill You" (New Detective, May 1950)
* "Wine of the Dreamers" (Startling Stories, May 1950)
* "By the Stars Forgot" (Super Science Stories, May 1950)
* "Gift of Darkness" (Super Science Stories, May 1950) (as Peter Reed)
* "College-Cut Kill" (Dime Detective, June 1950)
* "Sir Lancelot's Crime Wave" (Dime Detective, June 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Dead on the Pin" (Mystery Book, Summer 1950)
* "Jukebox Jungle" (Black Mask, July 1950)
* "Run, Sister, Run!" (Detective Tales, July 1950)
* "Dead Men Don't Scare" (Dime Detective, July 1950)
* "Five-Star Fugitive" (Dime Detective, July 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
* "Half-Past Eternity" (Super Science Stories, July 1950)
* "Escape to Fear" (Super Science Stories, July 1950) (as Peter Reed)
* "Make One False Move" (Argosy, August 1950)
* "His Fatal Fling" (Dime Detective, August 1950)
* "The Lady Is a Corpse!" (Detective Tales, September 1950)
* "Exit Smiling" (Dime Detective, September 1950)
* "The Homesick Buick" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1950)
* "Too Early to Tell" (Adventure, October 1950)
* "Miranda" (Fifteen Mystery Stories, October 1950)
* "Shadow on the Sand" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1950)
* "The Paw of the Cat" (Detective Tales, November 1950)
* "Tri-Kill Cutie" (Dime Detective, November 1950)
* "For Murder -- or Worse" (New Detective, November 1950)
* "Final Mission" (Planet Stories, November 1950)
* "The Big Contest" (Worlds Beyond, December 1950)
* "I Love You (Occasionally)" (This Week, 31 December 1950)
1951
* "Death for the Asking (Detective Fiction, January 1951)
* "Susceptibility" (Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1951)
* "Hand from the Void" (Super Science Stories, January 1951)
* "Destiny Deferred" (Super Science Stories, January 1951(as John Wade Farrell)
* "Over My Dead Body!" (Detective Tales, February 1951)
* "The Curse of the `Star'" (Short Stories, February 1951)
* "Get Thee Behind Me" (Detective Fiction, March 1951)
* "Case of Nerves" (Detective Tales, March 1951)
* "The Deadliest Game" (Detective Tales, April 1951)
* "Death Is My Comrade" (New Detective, April 1951)
* "Salute to Courage" (Fifteen Sports Stories, April 1951)
* "Violence Inherited" (Detective Fiction, May 1951)
* "Nothing Must Change" (Redbook, June 1951)
* "Escape to Chaos" (Super Science Stories, June 1951)
* "Cosmic Knot" (Super Science Stories, June 1951) (as Peter Reed)
* "Path of Glory" (Adventure, July 1951)
* "Lay Me Down and Die" (Detective Fiction, July 1951)
* "Common Denominator" (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951)
* "Crime of Omission" (Detective Tales, August 1951)
* "Death Runs in the Family" (Dime Detective, August 1951)
* "Dateline -- Death" (New Detective, August 1951)
* "Who Stopped That Clock?" (This Week, 12 August 1951)
* "The White Fruit of Banaldar" (Startling Stories, September 1951)
* "Big League Busher" (Sport Magazine (?), after September 1951)
* "Case of the Gorgeous Gams" (Detective Tales, October 1951)
* "The Cloob from Glasgow" (Fifteen Sports Stories, October 1951)
* "The Cardboard Star" (The American Legion Magazine, December 1951)
* "The Girl Who Wanted Money" (Dime Detective, December 1951)
* "The Man Who Died" (Toronto Star Weekly, 15 December 1951)
1952
* "Very Junior Miss" (McCall's, January 1952)
* "Mr. Killer" (Today's Woman, January 1952)
* "Hell's Belter" (Fifteen Sports Stories, February 1952)
* "There Comes a Time" (Redbook, February 1952)
* "The Feather Wrench" (Toronto Star Weekly, 2 February 1952)
* "Betrayed" (The American Magazine, March 1952)
* "All That Blood Money Can Buy" (Detective Tales, April 1952)
* "The Man from Limbo" (Dime Detective, March 1952; Detective Story Magazine, April 1952)
* "My Brother's Widow" (Collier's, 15 March 1952 to 12 April 1952)
* "Refund for Murder" (Cosmopolitan, May 1952)
* "Delivery Boy War" (Bluebook, August 1952)
* "Who's the Blonde?" (Collier's, 9 August 1952)
* "Noose for a Tigress" (Dime Detective, August 1952)
* "Hit and Run" (Good Housekeeping, August 1952)
* "The Clay Pigeon Shoots Back!" (New Detective, August 1952)
* "Elimination Race" (Collier's, 13 September 1952)
* "Game for Blondes" (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952)
* "The Doll" (Cosmopolitan, November 1952)
* "Double Harness" (Detective Story Magazine, November 1952)
* "Identification" ("Author's Guild Bulletin," after November 1952)
* "Incubation" (In Future Tense, New York: Greenberg Publishers, December 1952)
* "He Knew a Broadway Star" (This Week, 14 December 1952)
* "Dead on Christmas Street" (Collier's, 20 December 1952)
* "A Good Judge of Men" (Argosy, ? 1952)
1953
* "A Day in the Sun" (Bluebook, February 1953)
* "Forever Yours" (McCall's, February 1953)
* "Death's Eye View" (New Detective, February 1953)
* "The Fourteenth of February" (?, February 1953)
* "What Are the Symptoms, Dear?" (This Week, 22 February 1953)
* "The Second Chance" (Bluebook, March 1953)
* "Dead Reckoning" (Detective Story Magazine, March 1953)
* "Suspicion Island" (Cosmopolitan, May 1953)
* "Labor Supply" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1953)
* "A Matter of Life and Death" (This Week, 14 June 1953)
* "Finders Killers" (Detective Story Magazine, July 1953)
* "He's Not Talking to Me" (?, July 1953)
* "The Trouble with Erica" (Cosmopolitan, September 1953)
* "The Innocent Victims" (Bluebook, November 1953)
* "Night Fright" (Cosmopolitan, November 1953)
1954
* "Six Golden Pennies" (Cosmopolitan, February 1954)
* "Flight of the Tiger" (Collier's, 5 March 1954 - 2 April 1954)
* "She Tried to Make Her Man Behave" (This Week, 7 March 1954)
* "The Big Gun" (Bluebook, May 1954)
* "The Man Who Almost Blew His Top" (This Week, 30 May 1954)
* "Built for Speed" (Argosy, June 1954)
* "First Offense" (Cosmopolitan, August 1954)
* "The Man Without a Home" (This Week, 22 August 1954)
* "I Always Get the Cuties" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1954)
1955
* "The Killer" (Manhunt, January 1955)
* "There Hangs Death" (This Week, 20 February 1955)
* "Tournament" (Bluebook, April 1955)
* "Deadly Victim" (Cosmopolitan, April 1955)
* "The Bear Trap" (Cosmopolitan, May 1955)
* "Virus H" (Bluebook, June 1955)
* "The Impulse" (Cosmopolitan, June 1955)
* "In a Small Motel" (Justice, July 1955)
* "Too Young to Marry" (This Week, 25 September 1955)
* "Long Shot" (Argosy, October 1955)
* "Scared Money" (Justice, October 1955)
* "Man on a High Ledge" (Bluebook, November 1955)
1956
* "Jail Bait" (Argosy, January 1956)
* "April Evil" (Cosmopolitan, January 1956)
* "The Unsuitable Girl" (Collier's, February 1956)
* "The Magic Valentines" (This Week, 5 February 1956)
* "Enough to Cure the Blues" (Bluebook, March 1956)
* "Don't Get Carried Away" (Toronto Star Weekly, 24 March 1956)
* "The Fraud That Paid Off" (This Week, 22 April 1956)
* "Squealer" (Manhunt, May 1956)
* "The Men Women Marry (Collier's, June 1956)
* "Linda" (In Border Town Girl, Popular Library, June 1956)
* "Hangover" (Cosmopolitan, July 1956)
* "Hurricane" (Redbook, August 1956)
* "A Criminal Mind" (Cosmopolitan, November 1956)
* "Open Before Christmas" (Woman's Home Companion, December 1956)
* "Death of a Dealer" (This Week, ? 1956)
1957
* "The End of Her Life" (Cosmopolitan, January 1957)
* "The Rabbit Gets a Gun" (Manhunt, January 1957)
* "The Bullets Lied" (This Week, 6 January 1957)
* "The Heat of Money" (Cosmopolitan, April 1957)
* "The Giant Who Came to Our House" (This Week, 5 May 1957)
* "A Romantic Courtesy" (Cosmopolitan, July 1957)
* "The Executioners" (Ladies Home Journal, October 1957 - November 1957)
1958
* "College Man" (Cosmopolitan, February 1958)
* "Black Cat in the Snow" (Manhunt, February 1958)
* "Taint of the Tiger" (Cosmopolitan, March 1958)
* "The Faithless" (Redbook, May 1958)
* "The Knife, the Chain, and the Schoolyard" (Ladies Home Journal, May 1958)
* "Man in a Trap" (This Week, 15 June 1958)
* "The Fast Loose Money" (Cosmopolitan, July 1958)
1959
* "Ultimate Surprise" (Cosmopolitan, January 1959)
* "Crossroads" (Cosmopolitan, June 1959)
* "Honeymoon in the Off Season" (Redbook, September 1959)
1960+
* "That Strangest Month of All" (Family Circle, October 1959)
* "The Tug of Evil" (Cosmopolitan, January 1960)
* "The Trap of Solid Gold" (Ladies Home Journal, April 1960)
* "End of the Night" (Cosmopolitan, May 1960)
* "Where Is Janice Gantry?" (Cosmopolitan, December 1960)
* "The Underwater Safari" (Bluebook, ? 1960)
* "Travel Light and Travel Far" (Cosmopolitan, January 1961)
* "Kitten on a Trampoline" (The Saturday Evening Post, 8 April 1961)
* "A Young Man's Game" (Argosy, May 1961)
* "Saturday's Child" (McCall's, May 1961)
* "Double, Double" (Golf, June 1961)
* "The Tempestuous Career of Molly Murdock" (McCall's, July 1961)
* "Sing a Song of Terror" (The Saturday Evening Post, 9 September 1961)
* "Hit and Run" (The Saturday Evening Post, 16 September 1961)
* "One Monday We Killed Them All" (Cosmopolitan, November 1961)
* "An Island of Her Own" (Redbook, February 1962)
* "Where the Body Lies" (Cosmopolitan, August 1962)
* "The Widow's Estate" (Good Housekeeping, October 1962)
* "The Drowner" (Cosmopolitan, January 1963)
* "The Obvious Woman" (The Saturday Evening Post, 30 March 1963)
* "Funny the Way Things Work Out" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1963)
* "End of the Tiger" (This Week, 20 October 1963)
* "The Straw Witch" (This Week, 12 January 1964)
* "Blurred View" (This Week, 23 February 1964)
* "The Loveliest Girl in the World" (This Week, 15 March 1964)
* "Wild, Wonderful Old Man" (This Week, 29 March 1964)
* "The Night Jamie Grew Up" (This Week, 24 May 1964)
* "A Touch of Miss Mint" (This Week, 19 July 1964)
* "A Matter of Trust" (Redbook, August 1964)
* "The White Lie" (This Week, 2 August 1964)
* "Eyewitness" (Argosy, September 1964)
* "Cop Probe" (Argosy, October 1964)
* "The Legend of Joe Lee" (Cosmopolitan, October 1964)
* "Bright Orange Shroud"* (Cosmopolitan, April 1965)
* "Taste for Mischief" (This Week, 20 June 1965)
* "Child Wife" (This Week, 29 August 1965)
* "The Girl in the Yellow Suit" (This Week, 19 December 1965)
* "Darker Than Amber"* (Cosmopolitan, April 1966)
* "Funny Man" (The Saturday Evening Post, 21 May 1966)
* "The Quickest Way Home" (This Week, 19 June 1966)
* "Triangle" (Cavalier, September 1966)
* "One Fearful Yellow Eye"* (Cosmopolitan, November 1966)
* "Quarrel" (Playboy, May 1967)
* "The Last One Left" (Argosy, July 1967)
* "The Annex" (Playboy, May 1968)
* "The Reference Room" (In With Malice Toward All, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1968)
* "Dear Old Friend" (Playboy, April 1970)
* "Double Hannenframmis" (Playboy, August 1970)
* "Parody of Spillane" (The JDM Bibliophile, August 1970)
* "He Was Always a Nice Boy" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1971)
* "The Random Noise of Love" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
* "The Willow Pool" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
* "Woodchuck" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
* "The Turquoise Lament"* (Cosmopolitan, March 1974)
* "The Taste of Gravy" (Playboy, June 1974)
* "The Dreadful Lemon Sky"* (Cosmopolitan, September 1975)
* "Finding Anne Farley" (aka "Ring My Love with Diamonds") (Various Field Syndicate newspapers beginning 22 May 1977)
* "Wedding Present" (Antaeus, Spring/Summer 1977)
* "A Terminal Case"* (New York, 3 October 1977)
* "Condominium" (Book Digest, November 1977)
* "Friend of the Family" (Various Field Syndicate newspapers beginning 24 September 1978.
* "The Accomplice" (In Who Done It?, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, Spring 1980)
* "J. R. Eats Humble Pie" (Panorama, September 1980)
One More Sunday (Knopf, 1984)
• The Lonely Silver Rain* (Knopf, 1985)
• Barrier Island (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986)
• A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Rowan and John D. MacDonald 1967-74 (Knopf, 1986)
• * "The Lad Is Not for Burning" (In Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?, Doubleday 1986.
Reading for Survival (Library of Congress, 1987)
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A BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHY BY WALTER AND JEAN SHINE.