Dress Her in Indigo
A Travis McGee Novel
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3.9 • 159 Ratings
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- $4.99
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Publisher Description
From a beloved master of crime fiction, Dress Her in Indigo is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Travis McGee could never deny his old friend anything. So before Meyer even says please, McGee agrees to accompany him to Mexico to reconstruct the last mysterious months of a young woman’s life—on a fat expense account provided by the father who has lost touch with her. They think she’s fallen in with the usual post-teenage misfits and rebels. What they find is stranger, kinkier, and far more deadly.
“To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut
All Meyer’s friend wants to know is whether his daughter was happy before she died in a car accident south of the border. But when McGee and Meyer step foot in the hippie enclave in Oaxaca that had become Bix Bowie’s last refuge, they get more than they bargained for.
Not only had Bix made a whole group of dangerous, loathsome friends, but she was also mixed up in trafficking heroin into the United States. By the time she died, she was a shell of her former self. And the more McGee looks into things, the less accidental Bix’s death starts to seem.
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child
Customer Reviews
Travis McGee Series
I discovered Travis McGee when I was 17. I read them all and I wanted to be McGee when I grew up. He was smart & tough, and the thinking man’s James Bond, with something to say. I‘m reading them again at 73. Like me, McGee now has some rust on him. He doesn’t quite fit in the modern world (nor would he want to). He’s quite old fashioned & very opinionated. A modern reader may find it strange — a world of no cell phones, no computers, and where women are the wives of cops, businessmen & politicians, which is not to say the women are not intelligent, tough, nor capable of making their own decisions. Do the books still work? Yes, because JDM could write. And the truths & concerns of which he wrote are still true & valid today. And, yes, I still want to be Travis McGee when I grow up.
Good Old Stuff
Such good writing, wish there were more JDM
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