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  <title><![CDATA[The Turquoise Lament]]></title>
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  <default_description>&quot;One of the most enduring and unusual heroes in detective fiction.&quot;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;THE BALTIMORE SUN&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Now that Linda &quot;Pidge&quot; Lewellen is grown up, she tells Travis McGee, once her girlhood idol, that either she's going crazy or Howie, her affable ex-jock of a husband is trying to kill her. McGee checks things out, and gives Pidge the all clear. But when Pidge and Howie sail away to kiss and make up, McGee has second thoughts. If only he can get to Pidge before he has time for any more thinking....</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[John D. MacDonald]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Feb 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Solid entry in JDM's Travis McGee series. The knight-errant from The Busted Flush this time helps out an old friend with a loopy husband. Lots of philosophical asides from Travis that fit into the plotline. Good action sequences. Enjoyable read.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I believe I have read all of the Travis McGee books, and I return to them for a comfort zone read.  Travis is the hardest working beach bum ever written.  He's a boat person and a skilled investigator.  He relies on quick reflexes, reading character, and a friendly hairy economist friend named Meyer...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42115336">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Listened to this book on tape read by Darren McGavin, on my way home from the airport today. Very well done by the reader--what a kick! My first John D. MacDonald.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a rare Travis McGee novel, as McGee, the perennial bachelor falls in love.  This book is a lament on several levels.  ]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Travis McGee]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Excellent read!  You learn a lot about Travis and his love life.  This book and an excellent twist, with lots of &quot;filler&quot; to keep the pages turning.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I have never loved a book like i did this one, it was so great i couldn't put it down!the suspense, mystery the surprises]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[There really isn't a bad Travis McGee book.  The correct title for this is &quot;The&quot; Turquoise Lament.]]></body>
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