"Travis McGee Series" - читать интересную книгу автора (MacDonald John D)

The Travis McGee Series by Jokn D. MacDonald

01. 1964: The Deep Blue Good-By aBook eBook
02. 1964: Nightmare In Pink *aBook eBook
03. 1964: A Purple Place For Dying aBook eBook
04. 1964: The Quick Red Fox *aBook eBook
05. 1965: A Deadly Shade Of Gold aBook eBook
06. 1965: Bright Orange For The Shroud eBook
07. 1966: Darker Than Amber eBook
08. 1966: One Fearful Yellow Eye *aBook eBook
09. 1967: Pale Gray For Guilt aBook eBook
10. 1968: The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper aBook eBook
11. 1969: Dress Her In Indigo eBook
12. 1970: The Long Lavender Look aBook eBook
13. 1971: A Tan And Sandy Silence aBook eBook
14. 1973: The Scarlet Ruse aBook eBook
15. 1973: The Turquoise Lament
16. 1974: The Dreadful Lemon Sky aBook
17. 1978: The Empty Copper Sea
18. 1979: The Green Ripper *aBook eBook
19. 1981: Free Fall In Crimson aBook-
20. 1982: Cinnamon Skin
21. 1985: The Lonely Silver Rain



THE DEEP BLUE GOODBYE - 1964

In 1964 MacDonald copyrighted four (!) Travis McGee books. Either he was on a furious roll, or he had been sitting on them until he was satisfied with the concept.

This first story introduces McGee, Fort Lauderdale based salvager-of-lost-causes; his cruisable barge-style houseboat; the Bahia Mar Marina community; and "Miss Alice", his old Rolls Royce turned into a homemade pickup truck.

A spunky choreographer named Chookie makes her first appearance and will dance her way through the series here and there as a minor character.

There's a villain of a type we'll be seeing in several versions; a heartless predator who goes around corrupting the pubescent, seducing the lonely, raping and stealing from the vulnerable, and generally being a sexual and homocidal monster. All the heavy villains in these books get dispatched, usually by Travis, near the end of each story.

Although Travis doesn't get a serious romantic partner in this first book, he does the next best thing by supplying sexual therapy where it's needed. (Travis will be doing quite a bit of this kind of social work.)

Touched by Cathy Kerr, a simple back-woods woman who has been robbed of everything but her dignity, Travis agrees to try to recover her plundered inheritance. But first he needs to find out how her father managed to hustle his way into big money while flight-crewing around the Far East during WWII. And how the stash got smuggled in, where it was hidden, and how to get it back from the predator who tracked it down. This quest takes Travis off on a prowl among the Texas gaudy noveau riche, and also to Manhattan where he gets a crash course in the business of smuggling and fencing gemstones.




NIGHTMARE IN PINK - 1964

Any profession can turn toxic if the practitioners carry things way over the edge or put their expertise to venal ends. What are the worst things mental hospitals can do to their patients? What horrors can financial managers wreak upon their clients? Things get carried to surreal extremes here.

In the midst of the tale a new type of character makes an appearance - the rich bitch with a heart of brass-coated gold. Here she's called Terry Drummond, and, like others of the breed in future tales, she makes a serious effort to bag Travis for house-pet purposes.

McGee's old army buddy Mike went from the battlefield to permanent residency in a veterans' hospital. Travis's survivor-guilt forces him to agree to look into the strange death of Howard, the man Mike's sister Nina was about to marry. 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, .