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Pale Gray for Guilt: A Travis McGee Novel
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While I still find "Flash of Green" to be my favorite MacDonald book, there's something so appealing about the Travis McGee series that keeps me coming back to them. And "Pale Gray for Guilt" has such an engaging opening sequence of events, and such an array of fascinating characters, that you cannot put this mystery down. I just hope that MacDonald continues to gain in popularity, as I feel he is horribly overlooked.
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...and whatever you do, read this one before reading "The Lonely Silver Rain". "Pale Gray" is vintage McGee, and a very fascinating exploration of the Big Con. There must be something more entertaining than these books, but I can't imagine what it would be.
By sweetmolly
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Tush Bannon, friend of Travis, a good and gentle man is killed horrifically by an anvil crushing his face and chest. First declared suicide-admittedly a peculiar way to do the deed--- later changed to murder. Tush owned a small marina whose acreage was a valuable parcel to the big bad business interests, and he was being squeezed out. He left a shocked and bereft wife and three young sons. Gallant Knight Travis rides to the rescue.
"Pale Gray for Guilt" was the 8th novel in the Travis McGee series, and I judge it as medium-good McGee. Published in 1968, it has an excellent contemporary flavor about it that captures the late '60s very well. The major flaw in the novel is the extraordinarily complicated sting set up by Meyer and Travis as revenge for Tush's demise. The big businessmen are set up to take a financial bath, and there are pages and pages devoted to capital gains, covering margins, selling short, etc. This has the effect of confining John Wayne to Wall St., not a happy or even very interesting state of affairs. However, Travis does get to expound, and wow his usual lusty women. (this one named Puss Killian-would such a name even be allowed today?) MacDonald allows Travis his special brand of sentimentality, "-went into the master bedroom and slipped out of the robe and into the giant bed and wished I wasn't too old to cry myself to sleep." No other tough private eye would ever be permited to think that way in print.
By the time this book was written, MacDonald had found his groove, though it was too bad he had to foist his interest in the stock market on Travis who, as we all well know, cares nothing about such things. It never happened again.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
An intricate con game played for revenge.
John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series was one of the first truly successful "hard boiled detective" genre series to make it big at the mass market level of sales. Read more
Published on Feb 26 2002 by David J. Gannon
2.0 out of 5 stars
Very poor McGee
I'm sorry, but I completely disagree with the other reviewers. I found this book to be shockingly bad. Read more
Published on July 23 2001 by Michael Wendt
5.0 out of 5 stars
An excellent early McGee
Many of Travis McGee's 1960s adventures seem a bit dated today. In his earlier incarnation, McGee was less cynical but more of a hedonist. Read more
Published on July 15 2000 by Brian D. Rubendall
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent!
Enough double-crosses and triple-crosses to fill four books. After reading this book, I re-read the last two chapters of Lonely Silver Rain. Read more
Published on Feb 8 1999
5.0 out of 5 stars
The best of the McGee's
In constructing Travis McGee, MacDonald took up where Chandler left off. A bold but introspective, thoughtful but hard-edged character, McGee is the rusty white knight in a world... Read more
Published on Jun 23 1998
5.0 out of 5 stars
great !!! all of his books are the best!
i have, and have read all of his books..started late, in 1965, and love every one, from the first travis to the last....and all the others...... Read more
Published on May 16 1997
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