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	Travis McGee - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		McGee appeared in 21 novels, from The Deep Blue Good-by in 1964 to The Lonely Silver Rain in 1984.
		Although the McGee novels invariably involved a mystery, they were not "detective novels" in the traditional sense of the term.
		McGee was a self-described "beach bum" who took his retirement in phases, as he lived off the proceeds from his recoveries and only took on new jobs when the stack of cash in his hidden safe was getting low.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Travis_McGee (967 words)

	Travis McGee -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee is a fictional character created by American mystery writer (additional info and facts about John D. MacDonald) John D. MacDonald.
		Although the McGee novels invariably involved a (A story about a crime (usually murder) presented as a novel or play or movie) mystery, they were not detective novels.
		McGee has been called the first great modern Florida adventurer, preceding characters and situations that appeared in novels by authors such as (United States writer of thrillers (born in 1925)) Elmore Leonard, (additional info and facts about Carl Hiaasen) Carl Hiaasen, James W. Hall and Les Standiford.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tr/travis_mcgee1.htm (914 words)

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		Travis investigates the sinister goings-on in the Manhattan financial institution where Howard was employed, discovers that inconvenient persons have been imprisoned in a mental facility, and learns more than he would like to know about the call girl business,.
		McGee is summoned to Esmeralda, a (fictitious) place in the Southwest, where his rich haughty client gets shot dead before Travis has a chance to tell her "I don't take this kind of case".
		Travis and Meyer go to Mexico to find out what kind of a life the dead daughter of a friend of Meyer's had been having down there with her dropped-out friends.
	home.earthlink.net /~rufener/books.html (3406 words)

	Deadly Shade of Gold (Travis McGee Mysteries (Paperback)) (John D. Macdonald) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of course like all the true "keepers", (which are legion in Travis' life), her lifespan is shortened tragically though Travis justifies his inocence in her fluke death.
		Of course to Travis it is just the on-going poker game of life, playing the hands he is dealt and sometimes overbetting a hand he should have folded.
		The story involves McGee's dual purpose of finding and avenging the killer's of an old friend who suddenly reappears in South Florida asking McGee for help while trying to recover a hoard of pre-Columbian gold figurines his friend says were stolen from him.
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		Travis McGee is a Korean War veteran, an ex-football player, a wiry, rugged, good-looking 200-lb dropout from conventional society.
		McGee is unlike any of the other great PI types that preceded him: Sam Spade, the Continental Op, Philip Marlowe, Mike Hammer, Lew Archer (although he does have certain commonalities with the latter).
		The McGee novels are more often about discovering the true character of a cast member than about the actual crime; they are really “whydunits” and not “whodunits”, with an emphasis on Travis exploring for the character flaws in the other participants in the novel.
	johndmacdonald.4t.com (3428 words)

	washingtonpost.com: John D. MacDonald's Lush Landscape of Crime (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McGee is owner of the "Busted Flush, 52-foot barge-type houseboat, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale." He's a World War II veteran, 6 feet 4 inches tall, solidly built.
		McGee has been taking his ease in the Busted Flush when a woman steps aboard the boat at 4 in the morning.
		He had a one-night stand with her a few years ago, now sees that the "years had aged her more than she could reasonably expect and had tested and toughened her." She presses a package upon him and asks him to safeguard it; inside is nearly $95,000.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A24443-2003Nov10?language=printer (1538 words)

	Bookslut \| Pulp Fiction, Hard Cases and the Travis McGee Retirement Plan
		Travis McGee, an errant detective created in 1964 by John D. MacDonald was, like Steve McQueen, a genuine icon of American cool.
		McGee wasn’t even a proper detective but a self-contained “salvage consultant,” meaning he went after lost property with quick wits and a hard skull and kept whatever he recovered for half its value.
		McGee has as much in common as Hefner or as Bond where women are concerned.
	www.bookslut.com /mystery_strumpet/2005_04_005008.php (1044 words)

	sciforums.com - Travis McGee
		With that said, the McGee series is a very well written saga of an aging beach bum who solves mysteries.
		Travis McGee, hero of 21 disposable paperback adventures, still has a huge and devoted following 12 years after the last of these tales was written.
		McGee is not a P.I. He is a self-described "salvager", the guy you come to last when you've exhausted all legal means to recover your losses after you've been screwed in some con game.
	www.sciforums.com /showthread.php?t=42777 (532 words)

	Psychology Today: The case of the multicolored personality - author John MacDonald's personality compared with the ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee is a white man of indeterminate age, probably about 43.
		McGee is sexually active, having had affairs of various duration and intensity with 50 to 60 women.
		McGee is in a dangerous line of work, and he has the scars to prove it.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1175/is_v20/ai_4471947 (1526 words)

	John D. MacDonald Gold Medal & Crest Author The Travis McGee Series A-G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		When Travis McGee’s friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece, Norma, and her new husband, Evan, he never dreamed he was signing their death warrant.
		TRAVIS McGEE responded to no known discipline, and was seldom subjected to any, especially while clearing skipper Van Harder's good name.
		TRAVIS McGEE believed that his world of boats and Boodles, sharks and shakedowns, sandy sunshine and boozy floozies was the real world.
	eddiestevenson.za.net /goldmed/macdona/1.shtml (1131 words)

	John D. MacDonald Gold Medal & Crest Author The Travis MacGee Series H-Z (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Smart, honest, tough, but very tender, John D. MacDonald’s famous fictional hero Travis McGee is a fearless adventurer, an intrepid investigator, a champion of underdogs, a rescuer of ladies in distress, and a contemporary philosopher extraordinaire.
		TRAVIS McGEE that tough amorous rover who stayed just inside the law wanted to be back aboard the Busted Flush which he could fill with his favourite brand of darling girls, the hair-salty, rump-sandy, happy-making girls in sun-faded fabrics, sun-streaked hair.
		TRAVIS McGEE found a new interest that stirred old hatreds with a killer who liked the odds his way.
	eddiestevenson.za.net /goldmed/macdona/2.shtml (1186 words)

	Travis McGee - The Black and Mourning Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		His daughter, Jean, knew he was "Travis McGee" - I gave her a set of all 21 novels.
		I joked that with a daughter in college to support, Travis might be interested in a full time job for the first time in his life.
		If Travis was away, she stayed with her Uncle Meyer.
	ourworld.cs.com /jamessfreeman16/TravisMcGee.htm (535 words)

	The American Spectator
		I have read all the McGees so often that, in a favorite metaphor of MacDonald's, I have been seated at the front row at the ballet, and smelled the sweat and dust stamped up from the costumes, and heard the grunts of effort that spoil the illusions of ease, so perfect from ten rows back.
		McGee has lots of lovers throughout the series, lots of sexual partners -- these books were written in the sexy sixties and seventies, mostly, and they are very sexy indeed.
		McGee was a sergeant in a paratrooper unit in the Korean War, so in The Deep Blue Goodbye, in 1964, he was probably 33 or 34.
	www.spectator.org /dsp_article.asp?art_id=7035 (1422 words)

	John D. MacDonald book reviews
		Travis McGee is having the time of his life--he's doing nothing but enjoying the life on board his “Busted Flush,” entertaining all his friends in his best care-freemanner!
		And Travis McGee comes face to face with this evil in “Dress Her in Indigo.” Bix Bowie, a lovely young woman, has become hopelessly involved with her addiction and Travis takes on the responsibility of investigat...
		Travis has finally found true love, and she is snatched from him by death.
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	Amazon.ca: Books: Purple Place for Dying (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McGee leaves his Florida houseboat for the Nevada desert, where he expects to to help Mono untangle her estate from the greedy fingers of her estranged husband.
		McGee is the classic not-quite-noir hero, mad of the same cloth as Nero Wolfe's Archie.
		Seems her body disappeared while McGee was calling the police and she was always threatening to one away with her lover and weren't they spotted on a commercial flight getting away, and-.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0449224384 (786 words)

	Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald - read review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McGee is unable to resist and from the moment he accepts the challenge, the reader is glued to the pages
		Travis McGee lives on a houseboat, Slip F-18 Bahia Mar, in Ft. Lauderdale and when this beach bum works he is usually employed to find things that are lost, but only if he can keep half.
		McGee's observation on southern Florida have come to fruition and his books are therefore as timely as ever.
	mostlyfiction.com /sleuths/macdonald.htm (429 words)

	Amazon.com: Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		McGee's relationship with Annie, the very successful manager of a hotel in Naples, has issues other than his long field trips for his job: her job involves working for a large company, with up-and-out promotion prospects.
		Travis is in classic form, driven to avenge the wrongful death of the niece of his closest friend, Meyer.
		As a side story, Travis is again torn between his woman of the book, versus his beach bum lifestyle, as she takes takes a career progression move out of Florida.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449224848?v=glance (2036 words)

	Travis McGee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		He is most noted for his fabulous Travis McGee series (all books having a color in the title), although he also wrote one of my favorite mysteries, The Last One Left, which I think is his masterpiece (see below).
		While techically not of the Golden Age of Detection, John D. Macdonald's Travis McGee series is a classic in the thriller/caper genre (and also quite good as mystery with some minimal detection).
		In this case, McGee nearly comes a cropper by underestimating the latter, and there is a very poignant and traumatic for Travis ending.
	www.mysterylist.com /travis.htm (2053 words)

	John D. MacDonald [1916-86] at BlackHat Mystery Bookstore
		Travis McGee is the protagonist of 21 novels written by John D. MacDonald (whose bio follows this 'bio' of Travis).
		Travis is hired by a woman from an Old West desert valley, who is shot dead just as Travis arrives to meet with her.
		Travis & Meyer infiltrate the town of Bayside and the subcultures of swinging singles, marijuana smuggling, and corrupt small-town politics.
	www.genordell.com /stores/blackhat/JDMtravis.htm (1476 words)

	The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee is visited late one night by a girl he knew years ago.
		A fast moving Travis McGee is a good Travis McGee and this one certainly zips by with alacrity.
		Travis McGee is probably the most perfectly realized character in series fiction, but what really grabbed me about this novel was the ultra-frightening villain.
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	Travis McGee
		Colourful TRAVIS MCGEE docks his yacht, The Busted Flush, a 52-foot barge type houseboat with twin diesels, at the Fort Lauderdale marina, and takes his retirement on the installment plan.
		As George Pelecanos has pointed out, McGee was "the embodiment of (early 60s) male wish-fulfillment." That the series lasted so long is a testament not just to McGee's character, but to MacDonald's ability to tell a story, and captivate an audience.
		Mcgee picked it up for 30 grand, but it could easily have gone for 4 times that amount in the '60s.
	www.thrillingdetective.com /travis.html (1050 words)

	Public apology and reinstatement of Travis McGee's account [Free Republic]
		McGee will accept your apology and I look forward to conversing with him and other patriots on this great site of yours.
		Travis McGee's insightful comments have been one of the reasons I've enjoyed FR so much.
		Travis McGee, however, is only one of many FReepers who have had their accounts pulled without just cause.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3abd33245975.htm (1505 words)

	Comic Book Resources Forums - Travis McGee (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		How many fans of McGee, the knight in slightly tarnished armor, tilting at life's random windmills, rescuing the sandy-rumped beach bunnies as he partakes in early retirement and a healthy portion of Boodles.
		McGee, of the raw knuckled, deep salt water tan.
		McGee goes through hell and is nearly killed, all to gain about $50,000.
	forums.comicbookresources.com /showthread.php?t=7397 (1301 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee gets a check for $25,000 (a lot of dough for 1969) and the dying wish of an old friend, to look after her suicidal daughter.
		What McGee encounters is a series of unusual circumstances, including dead bodies, cheating spouses, and the evidence that somebody is spying on him.
		True to most McGee novels, justice is served in the end, although in a form the reader does not expect.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0397009534 (637 words)

	Big Bill's John D. MacDonald Stuff!
		Travis McGee might be the last great heroic archetype created in the twentieth century.
		McGee is a 'salvage expert'; he recovers money on a contingency-fee basis for clients (usually attractive young women) who have been rooked by confidence tricksters.
		Travis is also an unlicensed sexual therapist, restoring the self-confidence of his female 'wards'.
	www.kruse.demon.co.uk /johnd.htm (4311 words)

	Mystery Guide - The Scarlet Ruse by John D. MacDonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Of course, if you've read Travis McGee before, you know that in solving the crime he ends up with a frightened lady aboard his houseboat, "The Busted Flush", for a run to sea to fight off the bad guys.
		Yet these are not really "whydunits", but "whodunits" with an emphasis on Travis McGee exploring for character flaws in the other participants in the novel.
		Often Travis "solves" the mystery by tempting the culprit with a morally corrupt but irresistible offer, the acceptance of which parallels the original crime and seals the culprit's fate.
	www.mysteryguide.com /bkMacdonaldRuse.html (522 words)

	Amazon.com: The Dreadful Lemon Sky (Travis McGee Mysteries): Books: John D. Macdonald (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee has been offered easy money by a longtime lady friend.
		Navigating his boat into troubled waters, he heads for the seamier side of Florida--where drug dealing, twisted sex, and corruption are easy to find--but murderous riddles are hard to solve....
		Inevitably she is killed a week later prompting McGee to take The Busted Flush and his neighbour and regular party fiend, Meyer south to Bayside to try to find out what happened to her.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0449224791?v=glance (1171 words)

	Target : Entertainment : A Tan and Sandy Silence (Travis McGee Mysteries) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Travis McGee is the strikingly handsome and ever resourceful invention of John D. MacDonald.
		Born in the author's imagination in 1964, McGee drifted into the world on a 52-foot diesel-powered houseboat, the Busted Flush, which he has used as a base of operations through many adventures.
		In A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE, news of a former girlfriend's mysterious disappearance leads McGee to the West Indian island of Grenada.
	www.target.com /gp/detail.html?asin=0449224767 (146 words)

	Powell's Books - Cinnamon Skin (Travis McGee Mysteries) by John D. Macdonald
		Pale Gray for Guilt (Travis McGee Mysteries) by John Macdonald
		When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys.
		Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed....
	www.powells.com /biblio?isbn=0449224848 (142 words)

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