The first Travis McGee novel. A story of a self-described beach bum who lives on a houseboat he won in a card game, and only works when he needs money. He'll find anything you've lost, as long as he gets to keep half. Not your usual hero, but a good guy. An exciting mystery.

Every title in this series contains a color. Janet Evanovitch's Stephanie Plum series does the same thing with numbers. An advantage to a trick like this is that it's easy to identify the series, and in the Plum case, the order is obvious.

MacDonald is well-liked by such other writers as Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, Spider Robinson, Dean Koontz, and Sue Grafton. I bought this book because I read about MacDonald's literary monument in Callahan's Key by Spider Robinson.

Books by John D. MacDonald:
The Deep Blue Good-by
Nighmare in Pink
A Purple Place for Dying (2^nd copy)
The Quick Red Fox (2^nd copy)
Darker Than Amber
Pale Grey For Guilt
The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper
The Green Ripper
The Long Lavender Look
A Deadly Shade of Gold
One Fearful Yellow Eye
The Turquoise Lament (2^nd copy)
A Tan And Sandy Silence
The Lonely Silver Rain
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
Cinnamon Skin (2^nd copy)
The Empty Copper Sea
Dress Her In Indigo
The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything
One More Sunday
Barrier Island
Wine of the Dreamers
Condominium
A Key To The Suite
Worlds To Come edited by Damon Knight
Introduction to Night Shift by Stephen King

Released on Monday, September 23, 2002 at McDonalds on Magnolia Avenue in Auburn, Alabama USA.

Left on the table nearest to the drink dispensers, about 2:15pm