A Purple Place for Dying: A Travis McGee Novel - Softcover

MacDonald, John D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812983939 ISBN 13: 9780812983937

Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013

Synopsis

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.
 
Travis McGee’s taking his retirement in installments while he’s still young enough to enjoy it. But sooner or later, his money runs out and he has to work. This time McGee’s lured out West to a strangely secretive meeting with a woman in trouble, in a place whose beauty hides some ugly, dangerous secrets.
 
“John D. MacDonald created a staggering quantity of wonderful books, each rich with characterization, suspense, and an almost intoxicating sense of place.”—Jonathan Kellerman
 
Mona is in love with a poor, young college professor and married to a wealthy man whom she is convinced is stealing from her trust fund. So she does what any self-respecting girl would do: She hires someone to steal her money back so she can run away with the love of her life.
 
Travis isn’t sure he wants to help out until he sees Mona getting shot and killed out on the cliffs near her cabin. Now he’s a lead suspect in a plot to help her escape, and to clear his name, he needs to get to the bottom of things. But the murders just keep mounting, and for Travis, even working with Mona’s husband doesn’t seem to help matters. Will he be able to uncover the complex plot in time to save his own skin?
 
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child

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Travis McGee is summoned to Arizona by a rich, beautiful arrogant woman.  And then she's dead - shot in the back at long range, lying crumpled on the ground at his feet.

With the would-be client eliminated, and on a dime's worth of fee in his pocket, any ordinary detective would walk away fast.  But Travis McGee is no ordinary detective.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0812983939
• ISBN 13: 9780812983937
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240