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Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Hardcover)

by John D. MacDonald (Author)

4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing (April 12 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0517386372
ISBN-13: 978-0517386378
Shipping Weight: 146 g

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This is item 10 in The Travis McGee Series.

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2 cassettes / 3 hours
Read by Darren McGavin

"...a master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer."
--MARY HIGGINS CLARK

"...a dominant influence on writers crafting the continuing series character."
--SUE GRAFTON

* All of John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee novels are available from Random House AudioBooks*

Helena Pearson. Undeniably beautiful . . . indisputably rich . . incredibly wanton . . . the perfect client for Travis McGee. He did a big favor for her husband and then for the lady herself. Now Helena is dead, and McGee finds out that she had one last request to make of him: find out why her beautiful daughter, Maurie, keeps trying to kill herself. So, half-convinced that Maurie needs a good doctor and not a devil-may-care beach bum, McGee makes his way to the prosperous town of Fort Courtney, Florida, a respectable, booming, deadly little place. . . . --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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A reissue of a best-selling thriller featuring the late author's singularly heroic creation, the virtuous private eye Travis McGee, as he becomes entangled in a web of violence and intrigue after agreeing to fulfill one woman's dying request. Reissue." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 Poor Nurse Penny, Juil 8 2004

Par	Clare Quilty (a little pad in hawaii) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Mass Market Paperback)

A bit overplotted and maybe resolved just a little too neatly, "The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper" nevertheless transcends its dated, Spillane-esque title and serves as a entertaining, mid-level McGee adventure.

After two excellent introductory sections (a cool short section about Trav *actually* working in his supposed field -- salvage consulting; and a amusing backstory about his affair with an older woman), we gear into the breadth of the plot which involves a beautiful, unhinged blonde with a bottomless trust fund and her husband, a monied sociopath who's both more and less dangerous than he seems.

Somewhere along the way, we find Trav actually experiencing genuine feelings for a woman (and the *wrong* woman, no less; this is one instance in which most readers can finally say *they* know better than MacDonald's endlessly shrewd, canny protagonist).

The final third is a little too much Q&A, with Trav extracting exactly the information he needs from relative strangers; the fairly obvious examination of race-relations may be accurate but hasn't aged too well; and the ending -- in which MacDonald actually has to step back and explain the twists step-by-step to the reader through a deposition -- feels like a writer tip-toeing out of the corner he's painted himself into.

But nevertheless, this is a vivid little page-turner with some nicely rendered characters (Pike, Biddy, Nurse Penny, screwed-up lawyer Holton and his alluring wife and especially Detective Stanger) and an apt air of melacholy, regret and loss.

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4.0�toiles sur 5 A Thinking Man's Mystery Novel, Ao� 16 2001

Par	Paul Skinner (Manassas, Virginia United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires

This review is from: Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Mass Market Paperback)

Travis McGee gets a check for $25,000 (a lot of dough for 1969) and the dying wish of an old friend, to look after her suicidal daughter. So McGee goes to Fort Courtney to observe the daughter, her sister and her husband. What McGee encounters is a series of unusual circumstances, including dead bodies, cheating spouses, and the evidence that somebody is spying on him. Could all of these things be connected? Sure - but only McGee could figure out the complicated connection. True to most McGee novels, justice is served in the end, although in a form the reader does not expect.

This is my 11th McGee novel. Clearly MacDonald writes in a more sophisticated style than 98% of the mystery writers today. A new reader may find it annoying that one must suffer through a good 100 pages before the action really begins, but this is typical MacDonald style. Not only do you get a complex mystery, but you get a lot of philosophy along the way.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 My first McGee novel. A very good start!, Mars 12 2001

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Well, I'll keep this short & sweet. I'm not much of a mystery reader but this series was recommended to me by several people. I picked this one randomly to start the series. I liked it...the story was quick-moving, had good character development, some humor, a lot of action, and tied up nicely at the end. At 250 pages it's a quick read, perfect for an airplane ride. If you like Dick Francis, Robert Parker, et al, then you'll like this series.

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5.0�toiles sur 5 A book written 30 years ago that still speaks today
This was my second John D. MacDonald book and my first Travis McGee book. I had heard that MacDonald could flat-out write, and I was not disappointed by this book. Read more

Publi� le F�v 28 2000 par toddwylie

4.0�toiles sur 5 the girl in the brown paper wrapper
As a massive consumer of Crime Fiction, I am happy to say that this, my first foray into the writings of McDonald has proved most pleasurable. Read more

Publi� le Janv. 12 2000 par matt wallace

5.0�toiles sur 5 Outstanding
Try putting down a John MacDonald novel about the wonderful, crazy and heroic Travis McGee. This one is as good and entertaing as all the rest. Read more

Publi� le Juil 7 1998