Research Catalog

Title

The dreadful lemon sky / John D. MacDonald.

Author

MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986

Publication

New York : Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Child, Lee

Description

xii, 267 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Dreadful Lemon Sky is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. Around four in the morning, Travis McGee is jarred awake by a breathless ghost from his past: an old flame who needs a place to stash a package full of cash. What's in it for McGee? Ten grand and no questions asked. Two weeks later, she's dead. Carolyn Milligan was only aboard McGee's boat for one night. She came to drop off a hundred grand for safekeeping. What Carrie really needed was someone to keep her safe. She said she'd be back in a month. Instead Carrie is killed in a dubious roadside accident. Now McGee is left with a fortune--and a nagging conscience. So McGee takes a trip to the seedy little town of Bayside, Florida, to look into Carrie's life before she showed up on his boat. What McGee finds only pushes him further into the corrupt world of drugs and blood that Carrie was trying to escape. McGee is used to high stakes, but when the bodies start piling up, even he may be in over his head. Features a new Introduction by Lee Child."--Amazon.com.

Series Statement

• A Travis Mcgee novel
• MacDonald, John D. (John Dann), 1916-1986. Travis McGee series

Subject

• McGee, Travis (Fictitious character) > Fiction
• Private investigators > Florida > Fort Lauderdale > Fiction
• Fort Lauderdale (Fla.) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Mystery fiction
• Fiction

Note

• Originally published in pbk. in the U.S. by Fawcett, an imprint of The Random House Pub., in 1964.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9780812984071 (pbk.)
• 0812984072 (pbk.)

OCLC

• 825733476
• SCSB-12010633

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library