- Mystery Fiction, Extortion in Fiction, Fiction, Private investigators
Travis McGee #8 How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skilfully to the husband of Travis McGee's ex-girlfriend. McGee flies to Chicago to help untangle the mess and discovers that although Dr. Fortner Geis had led an exemplary life, there were those who'd take advantage of one "indiscretion" and bring down the whole family. McGee also discovers he likes a few members of the family far too much to let that happen....
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- Author
- John D. MacDonald
- First published
- 1971
- Pages
- 226
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Limited, Random House Audio, Fawcett Gold Medal
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449129333
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- Mystery Fiction
- Extortion in Fiction
- Fiction
- Private investigators
- Large type books
- Travis McGee (Fictitious character)
- Florida, fiction
- Mcgee, travis (fictitious character), fiction
- Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled
- Fort lauderdale (fla.), fiction
- Private investigators, fiction
- Mystery and detective stories
John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania. He attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania but dropped out to move to New York City, where he took menial to support himself. While attending the School of Management at Syracuse University, he met Dorothy Prentiss, and they married in 1937. He graduated from Syracuse the following year, and in 1939 he received an MBA from Harvard University. During World War II he served in the Office of Strategic Services in the Far East. In 1945, he wrote a short story for his wife and mailed it to her. She submitted it to the magazine Story, and it was published. When he returned home after the war, he wrote full-time, often workin
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