Believing either that her husband is out to kill her or that she is insane, Pidge Brindle contacts a friend of her late father for help

Product Description: 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...read more

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 shows up at the Busted Flush, Travis McGee knows that he must be the man’s last resort. What Harder wants salvaged is his reputation. After a long career as a seaman, he was piloting a boat the night his employer fell overboard. Harder is certain he’s been set up, but to help him, McGee must prove that a dead man is actually alive.“John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all us in the field. Talk about the best.”―Mary Higgins ClarkThe fateful ride started with Harder at the helm of Hubbard Lawless’s luxury cruiser. It ends with him coming to, fuzzy and disoriented, and Hub lost to the water. Now everyone is saying that Harder got drunk, passed out, and is negligent in his boss’s death. The thing is, Van’s not a drinker…at least, not anymore.Who would want to frame the good captain, and to what end? Dead or alive, Lawless is worth a lot of money. People are always eager to get a piece of that action―including some, as McGee soon finds, who are willing to take a piece out of anyone who gets in their way.

Travis McGee learns that he will have to earn the ten thousand dollars being paid him for hiding a small fortune aboard his houseboat, The Busted Flush

Travis McGee agrees to investigate a case involving a rare-stamps swindle and finds himself confronting death, deception, a tantalizing affair, and an ambush aboard a houseboat aground at No Name Island

Product Description: “As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.” — Dean Koontz Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest — real estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee is hiding his missing wife...read more

Product Description: 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 estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee is hiding his missing wife...read more

On vacation in the Southwest, Travis McGee reluctantly agrees to help Mona Yeoman retrieve her estate from a wayward husband only to become an eyewitness to her sudden death

Product Description: “As a young writer, all I ever wanted was to touch readers as powerfully as John D. MacDonald touched me.” ― Dean Koontz Travis McGee is unnerved when he receives an unexpected guest ― real estate developer Harry Broll, who is convinced that McGee is hiding his missing wife...read more

Product Description: “The Travis McGee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.” ―Jonathan KellermanHe had done a big favor for her husband, then for the lady herself. Now she’s dead, and Travis McGee finds that Helena Pearson Trescott had one last request of him: to find out why her beautiful daughter Maureen keeps trying to kill herself...read more

Travis McGee becomes entangled in a web of violence and intrigue when he agrees to fulfill a woman's dying wish

Product Description: “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.” — Kurt Vonnegut Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Mexico to reconstruct the last mysterious months of a young woman’s life — on a fat expense account provided by the father who had lost touch with her...read more

Product Description: “John D. MacDonald was the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.” - Stephen King It only takes one word to get Travis McGee to leave the sunny deck of his houseboat in Ft. Lauderdale for the gray cold of Chicago...read more

Travis McGee arrives in Chicago to investigate the theft of thousands of dollars during Glory Doyle's husband's last painful year, and comes across a particularly sadistic blackmailer