Tuesday, September 21, 2021

John D. MacDonald - A Purple Place For Dying




You may remember movie Cape Fear with Robert de Niro and that lolita. Well, that is movie based on novel by this author. Wrote bunch of books this guy. But his main protagonist is bum Travis McGee who lives carefree life swimming and smoking until someone hires him to do job for him. In this particular novel he travels with some girl to an empty cabin in the woods only for her to be shot to death. After that Travis McGee begins to unravel mystery surrounding that town in which he was brought in by request of now dead girl.

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