The End of the Night [Fawcett M2732, by the author of the Travis McGee series]

MacDonald, John D. [author of the Travis McGee series]

ISBN 10: 0449141926 / ISBN 13: 9780449141922

Published by Fawcett Gold Medal, New York, 1984

About this Item

Mass market paperback, later (c1970s) printing, cover price 95 cents, 192 pages; spine creased and slightly slanted, still very tight in binding, light reader's crease and very tiny top corner crease to front cover, very tiny creases to back cover top corner, both bright, clean and colourful, top tenth of first non-text page cut off, otherwise very clean and unmarked throughout. See also our other John D. MacDonald listings (buy two or more and save on postage!), and for Complete Travis McGee Series Set of 21 Books, and for Travis McGee Series Set of 16 Books, and for Travis McGee Series Set of 11 Books.

Seller Inventory # 045742

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The End of the Night [Fawcett M2732, by the author of the Travis McGee series]
• Publisher: Fawcett Gold Medal, New York
• Publication Date: 1984
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0449141926
• ISBN 13: 9780449141922
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: Very Good -
• Seller catalogs:
  • Mystery/Espionage/Suspense Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

A journey into a world of fear and violence carried to their logical extreme—murder.

About the Author

John D. MacDonald was born in Pennsylvania and married Dorothy Prentiss in 1937, graduating from Syracuse University the following year and receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1939. It was Dorothy who was responsible for the publication of his first work, when she submitted a short story that he had sent home while on military service. It was initially rejected by Esquire but went on to be published by Story magazine - and so began MacDonald's writing career. One of the best-loved and most successful of all the masters of hard-boiled crime and suspense, John D. Macdonald was producing brilliant fiction long after many of his contemporaries had been forgotten, and is still highly regarded today. The Executioners, possibly the best known of his non-series novels, was filmed as Cape Fear in 1962 and 1991, but many of the crime thrillers he produced between 1953 and 1964 are considered masterpieces, and he drew praise from such literary greats as Kurt Vonnegut and Stephen King, who declared him to be 'the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller'. His novels are often set in his adopted home of Florida, including those featuring his famous series character Travis McGee, which appeared between 1964 and 1985. He served as president of the Mystery Writers of America and in 1972 was elected a Grand Master, an honour granted only to the greatest crime writers of their generation, including Ross MacDonald, John Le Carre and P. D. James. He won many awards throughout his long career, and was the only mystery writer ever to win the National Book Award, for The Green Ripper.