The good old stuff
Subtitle: 13 early stories
By: John D. MacDonald ; edited by Martin H. Greenberg ... [et al.].
Contributors: Greenberg, Martin Harry.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harper & Row
Published: 1982
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, American.
Description: A selection of thirteen of John D. MacDonald's best mystery stories written between 1947 and 1952, at the beginning of his career. Contemporary MacDonald readers and Travis McGee fans will delight in recognizing these precursors to Travis McGee; and mystery readers who remember them when they first appeared will remark on that extraordinary talent for storytelling, which is as apparent in his early stories as it is in his recent novels.
Table of contents: title: Murder for money; title: Death writes the answer; title: Miranda; title: They let me live; title: Breathe no more; title: From some hidden grave; title: A time for dying; title: Noose for a tigress; title: Murder in mind; title: Check out at dawn; title: She cannot die; title: Dead on the pin; title: A trap for the careless.