Travis McGee – RazorFine Review

Title: Nightmare in Pink
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Throwback Tuesday takes us back nearly 60 years to John D. MacDonald‘s second Travis McGee novel. While doing a bit of sleuthing for an old army buddy, the salvage consultant will get into a case which he will lose himself both in the arms of a beautiful young woman and the grips of a dark conspiracy. Out of his element, and working in the big city, McGee looks into money left behind to Mike’s younger sister Nina after the death of her fiancé. There’s no rational explanation for the large sum of money and Nina fears what he might have gotten involved in.

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The Deep Blue Good-by

Alan Rapp / October 10, 2023 / Books & Magazines

Title: The Deep Blue Good-by
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“I found I had taken an irrational dislike to Junior Allen, that smiling man.”

Throwback Tuesday takes us back nearly 60 years to John D. MacDonald‘s first Travis McGee novel which would eventually span 21 novels taking place over the next two decades. Private investigator adjacent, McGee is, in his own words, a salvage consultant working out of his houseboat on the Florida coast. When in need of money, and for the right client, McGee will offer his services for half the value of whatever he can recover and is often the only recourse for those who have no legal remedy.

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