When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece Norma, and her new husband Even, the boat exploded out in the waters of the Florida Keys. Travis McGee thinks it's no accident, and clues lead him to ponder possibilities of drugs and also to wonder where Evan was when his wife was killed..[...]

From a beloved master of crime fiction, "The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper" is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
He had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she's dead, and Travis McGee finds that[...]

FREE FALL IN CRIMSON is a Travis McGee mystery that was the choice of four book clubs upon its publication. It is the story of an inherited fortune and an unsolved murder. It ranges from Florida to California and involves McGee in everything from motorcycles to movies to hot air balloons. As the pac[...]

From a beloved master of crime fiction, "A Purple Place for Dying" is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.[...]

From a beloved master of crime fiction, "Nightmare in Pink" is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee's permanent address is the "Busted Flush, "Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there isn't a hell of a lot that co[...]

From a beloved master of crime fiction, "Bright Orange for the Shroud" is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee is looking forward to a "slob summer," spending his days as far away from danger as possible. But trouble[...]

"To diggers a thousand yeasrs from now...the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen."
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
How to 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.[...]

From a beloved master of crime fiction, "The Turquoise Lament" is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Funny thing about favors. Sometimes they come back to haunt you. And Travis McGee owes his friend a big one for saving his lif[...]

How far would you go to save your family? In John D. MacDonald's iconic masterwork of suspense, the inspiration for not one but two Hollywood hits, a mild-mannered family is tormented by an obsessed criminal--and with the authorities powerless to protect them, they must take the law into their own h[...]

A television star wilting under the limelight. An adman with a stiff upper lip. A rising New York artist. A desperate housewife. All are victims of a cruel puppet master--and one of them is a killer.
Introduction by Dean Koontz
The head of a global cosmetics empire, Wilma Ferris became a sel[...]

This dark psychological thriller was first published in 1957 as THE EXECUTIONERS. First filmed as CAPE FEAR in 1962, it was subsequently turned into a movie by Martin Scorsese in 1991, starring Robert De Niro as convicted rapist Max Cady, who stalks the family of his defence lawyer after discovering[...]

As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me. Dean Koontz Travis McGee s permanent address is the Busted Flush, Slip F-18, Bahia Mar, Lauderdale, and there isn t a hell of a lot that compels him to leave it. Except maybe a call from an old a[...]