Travis McGee 10-15

MCGEE NOVELS 10-15

The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper* (Fawcett Gold Medal, December 1968)
Dress Her in Indigo* (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1969)
The Long Lavender Look* (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1970)
A Tan and Sandy Silence* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1972)
The Scarlet Ruse* (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1973)
The Turquoise Lament* (Lippincott, November 1973)

1968

McGee delves into the mystery of a rich and beautiful wanton who happens to be losing her mind,
a little piece at a time. As he probes, he uncovers some of the strange corruptions that simmer behind
the respectable facade of a quiet Florida town.

1969

The wench is dead--but Travis McGee was backtracking her wild, sad trail through the bizarre world
of the hippies and drug freaks who had found haven in Mexico.

McGee would need all his cool, all his insight, to live up to the estimate of the rich and beautiful
woman who perhaps held the key to the puzzle.

1970

A lovely young woman steps in front of Travis McGee’s headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands
in ten feet of swamp water. As he’s limping along the deserted road, someone in an old truck takes
a few shots at him. And, when he goes to the local sheriff to complain ,the intrepid Travis mcGee
finds himself arrested and charged with murder.
Is this what they call Southern hospitality?

1971
Travis McGee is having the time of his life--he's doing nothing but enjoying life on board the “Busted Flush,” entertaining all his friends in his best carefree manner! That is, until long-ago acquaintance Harry Broil comes abroad, gun in hand, threatening McGee within an inch of is life, accusing Travis of making off with his wife, Mary.
Mary was an old friend, one whom Travis prizes dearly. Now he has to find her. As it wasn't likely for Mary to just run away, McGee knows that there is something seriously wrong,.

1972

McGee was busy with his beloved houseboat, The” Busted Flush. “ Too busy to pay attention to the
little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except they were not ordinary stamps. No indeed.
They were rare stamps.
Four hundred thousand dollars worth.

Even so, McGee was not all that interested in them until a generously- endowed amazon named
Mary Alice McDermit made her grand entrance....She knew a helluva lot about rare stanmps ,and
the ways to to a boat bum’s vulnerable heart.

But it wasn’t McGee’s heart that was in danger...A syndicate killer had put a contract out on McGee.
A killer who knew something about stamps, and veen more abou McGee.

1973

Take that young woman, McGee, and file her under TTF...try to forget.

But McGee couldn’t forget. Pidge was special. First time McGee saw her she was in pig-tails and
glassy-eyed in love for him. Now she was a grown woman and married to an ex-football jock name
Howie.

When he got the letter from Pidge McGee grabbed the first jet to Hawaii, and dried her tears.
Howie was trying to kill her, she cried.

McGee began to check on them both. Suddenly Travis began to appreciate what dangerous game
he stalked.
But McGee needed proof, a trap. And what better bait than himself?