- Fiction, Private investigators, Travis McGee (Fictitious character), Large type books
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Classical in form, cool, unpretentious and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John D. MacDonald
- First published
- 1970
- Pages
- 264
- Publisher
- Fawcett Gold Medal Books, Transworld Publishers Limited, The Crowood Press
- Editions
- 17
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780449133347
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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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