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Profile. Travis McGee lives on a 52-foot houseboat dubbed The Busted Flush. The boat is named after the circumstances in which he won the boat in what McGee describes as a "poker siege" of 30 hours of intensive effort in Palm Beach—the run of luck started with a bluff of four hearts (2-3-7-10) and a club (2), which created a "busted flush," as described in Chapter 3 of The Deep Blue Good-by.
The McGee adventures, each of which has a color in the title, mostly play out in Florida (where McGee lives a hedonistic bachelor life on a houseboat), the Caribbean, or Mexico, and many of them feature his friend and sidekick Dr. Meyer ("Just 'Meyer', please") Meyer, a renowned economist who helps Travis deconstruct elaborate swindles and cases of business corruption.
17 mar 1985 · The tycoon who had hired him dies suddenly overseas, and McGee forces an autopsy, which reveals that a thin, sharp object had been stuck into the inside corner of the tycoon's left eye, causing...
John D MacDonald died in the year 1986 which in effect killed on Travis McGee. The end of an era came with the death of our hero. Travis McGee was a protector of women, weaker men and the environment and since the last novel there doesn’t seem to be anybody that comes close to him as a character in a novel.
6 mag 2022 · The saving grace of this novel is a terrifying ending where we get to see another side of Meyer. #18. The Empty Copper Sea (1978) After basically writing at least one McGee adventure per year since the early 1960s, MacDonald took a four-year break before penning his last four novels, beginning with this one.
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Free Fall in Crimson is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. He was rich, mean, and slowly succumbing to cancer—until someone hastened the inevitable by beating him to death at a Florida truck stop.
12 ago 2018 · Created by John D. MacDonald(1916-86) “Travis McGee is the last of the great knights-errant: honorable, sensual, skillful, and tough. I can’t think of anyone who has replaced him. I can’t think of anyone who would dare”. B each bum. Salvage consultant. Recoverer of misplaced goods. Ladies’ man. Mender of broken hearts.
