Search Type
  • All
  • Subject
  • Title
  • Author
  • Publisher
  • Series Title
Search Title

Download

The Green Ripper

The Green Ripper( 1 customer ratings | )
Author: MacDonald, John D.
Series title:The Travis McGee Ser.
ISBN:978-0-449-22481-6
Publication Date:Apr 1996
Publisher:Random House Publishing Group
Imprint:Fawcett
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $7.99
Book Description:

"McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER Beautiful girls always grace the Florida beaches, strolling, sailing, relaxing at the many parties on Travis McGee's houseboat, The Busted Flush. McGee was too smart--and had been around too long--for many of them to touch his heart. Now, however, there was Gretel. She had discovered the key to McGee--to all of him--and now he had something to hope for. Then, terribly, unexpectedly, she...
More Description

Book Details
Pages:320
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Southern
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Private Investigators
Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Hard-Boiled
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):4.16 x 6.93 x 0.82 Inches
Book Weight:0.312 Pounds
Author Biography
MacDonald, John D. (Author)
John D. MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pennsylvania on July 24, 1916. He received a B.S. from Syracuse University in 1938 and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1939. During World War II, he served in the Army.

His first novel, Brass Cupcake, was published in 1950. He wrote about 70 books during his lifetime including the Travis McGee series, Condominium, No Deadly Drug, Nothing Can Go Wrong, and A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Rowan and John Dann MacDonald. A Flash of Green was adapted into a movie by the same name and The Excuse was adapted into a movie entitled Cape Fear. He received numerous awards including the Ben Franklin Award for the best American short story in 1955, the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere for A Key to the Suite in 1964, the Mystery Writers of America's Grand Master Award in 1972, the American Book Award for The Green Ripper in 1980.

He died from complications of an earlier heart bypass surgery on December 28, 1986 at the age of 70.

030



Rate this title:

Select your rating below then click 'submit'.






I do not wish to rate this title.