John D. MacDonald

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  • Bibliography:
    96 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1951
  • Latest Book:
    June 2017
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Full Series List in Order

A Travis McGee Novel

1 - The Deep Blue Good-Bye (1964)
2 - Nightmare in Pink (1964)
3 - A Purple Place for Dying (1964)
4 - The Quick Red Fox (1964)
5 - A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)
6 - Bright Orange for the Shroud (1965)
7 - Darker Than Amber (Jun-1966)
8 - One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)
9 - Pale Gray for Guilt (1968)
10 - The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1968)
11 - The Long Lavender Look (1970)
12 - A Tan and Sandy Silence (1971)
13 - Dress Her in Indigo (1971)
14 - The Scarlet Ruse (Jul-1973)
15 - The Turquoise Lament (1973)
16 - The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1974)
17 - The Empty Copper Sea (1978)
18 - The Green Ripper (1979)
19 - Free Fall in Crimson (Mar-1981)
20 - Cinnamon Skin (Jun-1982)
21 - The Lonely Silver Rain (1984)

Book List in Order: 96 titles

  • Weep for Me

    When Kyle Cameron meets temptation in the memorable shape of Emily, the strange, lovely new girl at the bank, his life changes forever. Emily has a fortune that frees him from his worst nightmares. But the relationship comes at a terrifying cost. Soo...

  • Cape Fear // The Executioners

    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...

  • I Could Go on Singing

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    In a stirring adaptation of Judy Garland’s final film, acclaimed novelist John D. MacDonald pulls back the curtain on the life of a great star after the crowds have left and the lights have gone out. This is the haunting story of Jenny Bowman, a fa...

  • The Deep Blue Good-Bye

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 1

    One look at Cathy Kerr and you could tell there was nothing life hadn't done to her. She was innocence turned helpless desperation, great brown eyes gone mournful and hopeless, tender illusion changed to memories of unutterable shame -- all because o...

  • Nightmare in Pink

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 2

    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, L...

  • A Purple Place for Dying

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 3

    McGee did not like Mona Fox Yeoman. She seemed artificial, self-important. She was provocative rather than seductive, a dare more than a desire. She made a man want to shake her up, to mat that twenty-five-dollar hairdo and knock that lady-of-the-man...

  • The Quick Red Fox

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    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Quick Red Fox is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   She’s the opposite of a damsel in distress: a famous movie star, very beautif...

  • Bright Orange for the Shroud

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 6

    The fragile-looking blonde was like a black widow spider feeding on her mate till he was broke and drained dry, a walking zombie stumbling aboard the celebrated TRAVIS McGEE houseboat The Busted Flush. And there lolls Travis McGee, that freelance kni...

  • A Deadly Shade of Gold

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 5

    A long-ago face from a faraway past -- Sam Taggart dropped in from nowhere on the girl he'd left behind -- and on his old buddy Travis McGee. And at one o'clock that night McGee opened the door to Taggart's cheap motel unit to find his friend's throa...



  • One Fearful Yellow Eye

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 8

    How do you extort $600,000 from a dying man? Someone had done it very quietly and skillfully 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 exem...

  • Darker Than Amber

    A Travis McGee Novel - 7

    Helping damsels in distress is nothing new for Travis McGee--it's basically how he spends his life. But this one was different right from the start. Tossed off a bridge with cement wired to her feet, dragged to safety by Travis and Meyer, she was a h...

  • The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper

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    There's nothing surer to attract Travis McGee than a beautiful woman in a jam. And this one is right up his alley -- rich and just a touch debauched. To help her out of a fix, Travis delves into the dirty dealings of a Florida town in his 10th myster...

  • Pale Gray for Guilt

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 9

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, Pale Gray for Guilt is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee’s old football buddy Tush Bannon is resisting pressure to sell...

  • The Long Lavender Look

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 11

    "McGee has become part of our national fabric."SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCERA lovely young girl steps in front of Travis McGee's headlights. McGee misses the girl but lands in ten feet of swamp water. As he's limping along the deserted road, someone in ...

  • Dress Her in Indigo

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 13

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even s...

  • Seven

    SEVEN TO REMEMBER... ANDREA--a girl who took everything her lover had to give her, and then took more ... WYATT--a man drowning in his own success, grasping at one final moment of pleasure... NORRIE--who was so innocent and so trusting, and who wa...

  • A Tan and Sandy Silence

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    From a beloved master of crime fiction, A Tan and Sandy Silence is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest -- real est...

  • The Annex

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    THEY'VE SEEN THE FUTURE -- AND IT DOESN'T LOOK GOOD.... What's going to happen when the world ends? Here are 14 humorous, poignant, eerie, and altogether too possible views of what things will be like when: Walking for pleasure and exercise b...

  • The Turquoise Lament

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 15

    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 ...



  • The Scarlet Ruse

    A Travis McGee Novel - 14

    McGee was too busy with his beloved houseboat, The Busted Flush, to pay attention to the little old man with his missing postage stamps. Except that they weren't ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars' wor...

  • The Dreadful Lemon Sky

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    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless g...

  • The Empty Copper Sea

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 17

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Empty Copper Sea is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.Asking for help is something a proud man like Van Harder would never do. So when he ...

  • Other Times, Other Worlds

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    GREAT SCIENCE FICTION FROM A TOP BESTSELLING AUTHOR OTHER TIMES, OTHER WORLDS Among these superb stories -- A CHILD IS CRYING -- A frightening look at a seven-year-old boy whose intelligence far surpasses that of top military experts... FLAW -...

  • The Green Ripper

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 18

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Green Ripper is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee has known his share of beautiful girls, but true love always passed...

  • Where Is Janice Gantry?

    Sam Brice, the perfect rugged hero, is involved with a young widow named Janice Gantry. But when she vanishes, Janice leaves behind a trail of blackmail, murder and a man at war with his own sense of duty.Sam is too curious to steer clear of the myst...

  • Free Fall in Crimson

    A Travis McGee Novel - 19

    GIRL IN COMA INHERITS FORTUNE -- that is how the headlines read when terminally ill tycoon Ellis Esterland was beaten to death at a stop on the Florida Turnpike two years ago -- murdered as his daughter lay unconscious, never to recover from a road a...

  • Soft Touch

    Jerry Jamison wants out: out of a sloppy marriage, a dull job and the empty suburban rat race. Once Jerry had a beautiful bride and a good salary at her old man's successful business - that was before his wife turned into a lush. Before the business ...

  • You Live Once

    Clint Sewell knew there wasn't a wife within fifty miles who didn't have reason to murder Mary Olan - because there wasn't a husband around who didn't think the grass was greener in Mary Olan's bedroom. The latest occupant was Sewell's boss, Dodd Ray...

  • A Man of Affairs

    Sam Glidden owed all his success to the opportunities he'd received from Thomas McGann, president of the Harrison Corporation. But now McGann was dead, and Mike Dean, a wildly flamboyant business speculator, was looking to add the Harrison Corporatio...



  • End of the Tiger and Other Stories

    End of the Tiger and Other Stories, a classic collection of short fiction from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   As prolific a novelist as John D. Ma...

  • Ballroom of the Skies

    Ballroom of the Skies, a classic science fiction novel from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Have you ever stopped to wonder why the world is eternally torn by w...

  • Murder in the Wind

    Murder in the Wind, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   With the waters rising and the winds whipping through the sky, ...

  • Cinnamon Skin

    A Travis McGee Novel - 20

    When Travis McGee's friend Meyer lent his boat to his niece, Norma, and her new husband, Evan, he never dreamed he was signing their death warrant. For suddenly, out in the waters of the Florida Keys, the boat was destroyed by an explosion. To all...

  • The Good Old Stuff

    The Good Old Stuff has been selected to give readers a taste of John D. MacDonald's great fiction. "The Simplest Poison" is a straight detective story. "Miranda" is psychological suspense. "Noose for a Tigress" is about a woman who wanted too m...

  • The Girl, the Gold Watch, and Everything

    From John D. MacDonald, one of the enduring American novelists of the twentieth century, comes a science fiction classic with a timeless premise. An aimless young man discovers a way to stop the world in its tracks -- and that’s when his life truly...

  • All These Condemned

    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 KoontzThe head of a global c...

  • Dead Low Tide

    Dead Low Tide is an iconic early thriller from John D. MacDonald, the mastermind behind Cape Fear and the Travis McGee novels. On the coast of Florida, a working stiff is wrongfully accused of murdering his boss -- and must outwit one of MacDonald’...

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  • The Lonely Silver Rain

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    A Travis McGee Novel - 21

    From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Lonely Silver Rain is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.   Travis McGee has luck to thank for his reputation as a first-rate salvager...



  • A Flash of Green

    James Wing was only trying to help his friend's widow. At least that's what he told himself after he warned Kat Hubble that the beautiful bay that she and her neighbours had struggled to save was now going to be sold to developers. He knew he shouldn...

  • Neon Jungle

    The Varaki family run the local grocery store, but tragedy hits the family hard. The sudden death of the matriarch of the clan is followed by the favourite son's death in Korea. The teenage daughter falls in with a bad crowd and there's also the othe...

  • More Good Old Stuff

    Offering indisputable evidence of the early talent that was to lead him to the top of the bestseller lists everywhere, these fourteen tales of crime and corruption, of sleuthing and suspense, of treachery, intrigue, and revenge, by the incomparable J...

  • Judge Me Not

    Judge Me Not, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook. One way or another, change is coming to Deron, New York. The city has long...

  • Border Town Girl

    Contains the two novellas Border Town Girl and Linda. Border Town GirlOnce, Lane Sanson had been a Somebody - war correspondent and a bestselling author. Now he was a Nobody, bumming around Mexico. Lost, lonely, hungry for hope, he was ...

  • On the Run

    Sid Shanley couldn't stay in one place very long. He had to keep on the run, changing towns, changing jobs, changing women. He worked out the perfect setup - no attachments, no trails, no explanations. But now a girl has caught up with him. Her name ...

  • One More Sunday

    Welcome to the Eternal Church of the Believer, where devout workers operate state-of-the-art computer equipment to process the thousands of dollars that pour in daily and where hundreds of prayers are offered by armies of believers.Roy Owens arrives ...

  • No Deadly Drug

    Indicted by the state of New Jersey for the murder of retired Colonel William Farber. Dr Carl Coppolino had been having an affair with Farber's wife, Marjorie.Did he kill Marjorie's husband and his own wife so he could marry Marjorie? If he did, he m...

  • Deadly Welcome

    Alex Doyle is a tough man on a tough assignment in Ramona Beach, Florida - the kind of place that doesn't trust strangers and is policed by a sheriff who echoes the locals' sentiments with a billy club. But Alex isn't an outsider, exactly. He grew up...

  • Barrier Island

    Tucker Loomis is a hard and dangerous man with a ruthlessness all West Bay fears and respects, and an improbable amount of money. Wade Rowley is a common man who aspires to honour but gets caught up in the footwork of a skilled swindler.In a pitiless...



  • The Crossroads

    More than half a century ago, Papa Drovek opened his small grocery store at the junction of two country roads. As he bought more and more land, the roads became highways, and now the Droveks own a complex of hotels, restaurants, a truck stop, a shopp...

  • Area of Suspicion

    Four years ago Gevan Dean found his fiancée Niki Webb in his brother Ken's arms and fled his hometown for a peaceful life in the Florida sun. But now Ken is dead - murdered by a thief, the police say - and Gevan is desperately needed to keep their c...

  • Slam the Big Door

    When Mike Rodenska, a former journalist and recent widower, visits his old friend Troy Jamison in Florida, he's shocked at what he finds. For despite the parties, the shapely women, the devil-may-care air that surrounds Troy and his friends, Mike can...

  • The Beach Girls

    Leo Rice seems like a nice enough guy, but why does he have to choose their beach? He could head ten miles up the Florida strip and everyone could just live happily ever after - no questions asked.But Leo Rice does ask questions ... and suddenly Steb...

  • Cry Hard, Cry Fast

    A gunman on the run, a seventeen-year-old girl on a family vacation, a jaded working girl, a guilt-stricken widower, an abandoned mistress. All heading fast down a route to sudden death. Then for one horrifying instant their lives are frozen in time,...

  • The Only Girl in the Game

    Her employers are the high priests of Las Vegas and she is their handmaiden. Her job is to lead the lambs to the sacrifice, to keep them happy at the tables, where her partners slaughter the suckers. She longs to be free of the entertainers rubbing e...

  • The Brass Cupcake

    In Flower City, a sleepy resort town on Florida's Gulf Coast, wealthy Elizabeth Stegman is murdered in a jewel heist gone bad - her missing jewels insured for £750,000.It falls to hardboiled ex-cop Cliff Bartells to find the killer, retrieve the jew...

  • Clemmie

    Clemmie, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Married, straitlaced, and struggling to rise out of middle management, Cra...

  • The House Guests

    The House Guests, a classic memoir of animal companionship from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   A master of the noir novel turns his sharp insights and consider...

  • April Evil

    The stage was set. Harry Mullin had hit town first. But he had just made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list, and he was a little nervous about being seen. With him at the rented house where they planned to case the job was a girl named Sal. Then the Ace ...

  • The Deceivers

    Her name was Cindy, and she was his neighbour's wife - the woman next door in the kind of suburbia that didn't make headlines. These were real people, nice people like Cindy and Carl who fought with the desperation of the damned to keep from wanting ...

  • One Monday We Killed Them All

    Step by step, Dwight McAran built a wall of vicious hate around himself. It was easy. He was a man who could slap one woman to death because she loved him, and hum a love song to another while he raped her.Sure, he did some time in jail. He sat in a ...

  • Cancel All Our Vows

    Fletcher Wyant and his wife Jane had been married for fifteen years. They had built the perfect marriage - two wonderful kids, a warm beautiful home, and their own private never-ending love affair.Fletcher thought he knew Jane completely. No dark sec...

  • The Empty Trap

    The Empty Trap, one of many classic novels from crime writer John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   Lloyd Wescott is a big boy, and he understands that big money doesn’t ...

  • The End of the Night

    Three men and a beautiful girl on a cross-country terror spree - a coast to coast rampage of stealing, kidnapping, rape and killing.Who were they? Where did they come from? Why did they do it?With chilling detail, John D. MacDonald unwraps the grotes...

  • Damned

    Her brows were black and her face was oval, the brandied eyes spaced gravely, the lips wide and warm with instinctive wisdom, the throat and shoulders golden and fragile above the strapless nubby material of the pale tan linen dress. She half lay on ...

  • The Price of Murder

    John D. MacDonald’s The Price of Murder features a complex plot told in a multiple-character format. Published in 1957 as a paperback original, The Price of Murder begins with the troubled marriage of English college professor Lee Bronson and his v...

  • A Key to the Suite

    Corporate hatchetman Hubbard is on his way to an industry convention to carry out a termination - a fancy way of saying he's about to toss a man and his family out in the street. But the convention is a modern Sodom of cheating husbands and ambitious...

  • Contrary Pleasure

    For years the Delevan family image reflected only the best of everything - wealth, position, influence, and the kind of expensive good looks that take generations to cultivate. No one dared suspect that their glittering façade, their cherished priva...

  • Murder for the Bride

    “SHE MAY LOOK LIKE AN ANGEL…but she’s a tramp.” That was when I hit him, my best friend. I thought of Laura and our three-day honeymoon. I thought of the sting of her full lips, the long lush lines of her warm, wonderful body, her throaty,...

  • Death Trap

    In life, Jane Ann never had much use for a halo, but in her violent death she finally earned one. When they found a suspect, everyone relaxed except Hugh MacReedy.Maybe he should have stayed out of it, but MacReedy owed a big debt to the patsy they w...

  • A Bullet for Cinderella

    Her veneer was big city ... But one look and you knew that Toni Raselle's instincts were straight out of the river shack she came from. I watched her as she toyed with the man, laughing, her tumbled hair like raw blue-black silk, her brown shoulders ...

  • The Drowner

    Events are set in motion by the death of Lucille Hansen who drowns in a lake. The cause of death is a mystery. Some claim it was accidental, although Lucille was a strong swimmer, while still others believe it was a suicide as she was on the verge of...

  • Please Write for Details

    American bachelor Miles Drummond, living in Cuernavaca, Mexico, and running out of money, half-heartedly places an ad in a few US newspapers announcing a summer art workshop. Much to his surprise, thirteen students write for details, and arrive in Cu...

  • The Last One Left

    When a yacht explodes in the Bahamas, apparently killing six people, Sam Boyleston, an attorney from Texas and the brother of one of the victims, is compelled to investigate the circumstances, as does Raoul Kelly, a newspaper reporter.After the disas...

  • Wine of the Dreamers

    Wine of the Dreamers, a classic science fiction novel from John D. MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   They are the Watchers: pale laboratory creatures living in a remote, ...

  • Condominium

    Welcome to Golden Sands, the dream condominium built on a weak foundation and a thousand dirty secrets.Here is a panoramic look at the shocking facts of life in a Sun Belt community -- the real estate swindles and political payoffs, the maintenance c...

  • Betrayed

    in Women on the Edge

    A loyal government secretary is caught in a cruel game of Cold War espionage....

  • Death Quotient and Other Stories

    Martin Rhode, a distinguished soldier of one of Earth’s warring states, has been unwittingly captured by aliens after innocently exploring a hole caused by what was perceived to be enemy warfare. As it turns out, the aliens are being pursued by nat...

  • Master of Noir: Volume Three

    This anthology features some of the most famous authors writing at the peak of their careers! Volume three of Master of Noir has the following ten great stories: THE KILLERS by JOHN D. MACDONALD, ATTACK by ED McBAIN, JUST WINDOW SHOPPING by LAWRENCE ...

  • On The Make

    Tal Howard, a disillusioned Korean War veteran, breaks away from his old life, looking for answers. He's convinced he's going to find them in the small town of Hillston, the location of 60 grand in embezzled funds that Howard learned about from a ...

  • Susceptibility

    Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1951SUSCEPTIBILITYby JOHN D. MacDONALDillustrated by James VincentThe colonists of this world needed help urgently. It was if they had deliberately decided to set their civilization back to some harsh era out of the pa...

  • Final Mission

    PERIL PRESS presents:Planet Stories, November 1950FINAL MISSIONA Thrilling Short Storyby John D MacDonaldIn that antiseptic society, thirteen hell-raising old space-warriors were obsolete as brass knuckles in a debate. So brass-bands played, and bras...

  • What Makes Sammy Laugh?

    PERIL PRESS presents:Detective Tales, August 1949WHAT MAKES SAMMY LAUGH?Dynamic Short Storyby John D MacDonaldWHAT MAKES SAMMY LAUGH? -- certainly not the humor of Sammy’s kill-mad traveling companion!Little Sammy Rufus laughed and laughed when his...

  • Hole In None

    Liberty Magazine, January 1947HOLE IN NONEShort Shortby John D MacDonaldIllustrated by Glenn ThomasImagine making all the lucky strokes of a lifetime again -- in a single golf match? Mr. Fingerhaver did1700 WordsAnd as a BONUS - Special Features:Libe...

  • But Not To Dream

    PERIL PRESS presents: Weird Tales, May 1949 BUT NOT TO DREAM by John D. MacDonald Illustrated by Vincent Napoli Hobbies are funny; and you can really get lost in them Changes that start with the soul are as complete as the mind of man can comprehend...

  • The Great Stone Death

    PERIL PRESS presents: Weird Tales, January 1949 THE GREAT STONE DEATH by John D. MacDonald Illustrated by Vincent Napoli It was a mountain, it was a stone . . . . it was a monster! 3400 Words Weird Tales, January 1949 A CURSE (verse) by Page Cooper ...

  • Like A Keepsake

    PERIL PRESS presents: Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1949 LIKE A KEEPSAKE by John D. MacDonald “All I can say is, if this should be the world’s end, it’s a real black color….” 3500 Words Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1949 WONDER ODDITIES ...

  • The Unsuitable Girl - The Men Women Marry

    PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, February 3 1956 The Unsuitable Girl by John D. MacDonald Illustrated Denver Gilen This was one secret his mother should never find out Collier’s Short Short 1300 Words Collier’s, June 8 1956 THE MEN WOMEN MAR...

  • Vanguard of the Lost

    PERIL PRESS Presents: Fantastic Adventures, May 1950 VANGUARD OF THE LOST by John D MacDonald Alien ships landing on Earth could mean but one thing: invasion. But as men watched in fear, a strange thing happened 9800 Words...

  • Who's The Blonde?

    PERIL PRESS presents: Collier’s, August 9 1952 WHO’S THE BLONDE by John D. Macdonald Illustrated by Tran Mawicke He was four thousand dollars short, and the cops had it figured out. They said he wrapped the bills and shoved them across the counte...

  • Hurricane

    A hurricane of terrifying intensity is looming over Florida. Along a state highway, a handful of foolhardy souls trying to outrun the storm are forced to seek shelter in an abandoned house. Thrown together by nothing more than chance, this disparate ...

  • In a Small Motel

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    Although the McGee novels are what MacDonald is best known for, his stories from the '50s represent probably his best work. In a Small Motel is a very good example of that writing. This story of menace, greed, and love was published in the July 1955 ...

  • Dead on Christmas Street & Who's the Blonde

    John D. MacDonald (1916 ??? 1986) was a prolific American writer of crime and suspense novels as well as short stories, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee se...

  • Common Denominator

    Advanced races generally are eager to share their knowledge with primitive ones. In this case ... with Earthmen!...

  • Flight of the Tiger

    Flight of the Tiger by John D. MacDonaldIllustrated with the original illustrations.After Ben Morrow was shot down in the last week of Korean fighting, his self-confidence was shaken; he felt he could never fly again. Months later, Ben was sent back ...

  • Murder Run-Around

    This time the sleek dancer and her hotshot pals weren’t going to hoodwink Bren Harris . . . this time he was walking into their set-up -- armed and shooting."Murder Run-Around" is a vengeance story from the master of suspense, John D. MacDonald, th...

Award-Winning Books by John D. MacDonald

The Green Ripper
1980 National Book Award -- Mystery (hardcover)


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