At 13 I sobbed my way through John D. MacDonald's CRY HARD, CRY FAST, an aptly titled novel...

Today I'm visiting at the Crimespree Magazine blog, where I talk about five books that influenced me - and here's one:





The Deep Blue Good-by , by John D. MacDonald (1964)


I was probably 12
when my dad decided I was old enough for the Travis McGee series – heady
stuff for someone just graduating from the Hardy Boys and Holmes. McGee
was a self-described “salvage consultant” who lived on a houseboat in
Fort Lauderdale and engaged in long soliloquies with his economist
friend Meyer between re...
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Published on February 01, 2013 12:27
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