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Travis McGee risks death at the hands of a syndicate killer while hunting for a stolen postage-stamp collection. Read by Darren McGavin. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Better than buttered popcorn!, Dec 18 2002

By	Glen Engel Cox "www.engel-cox.org" (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scarlet Ruse (Mass Market Paperback)

Number fourteen in the Travis McGee series, and I continue to devour the things like they were popcorn, even though I want to slow down and examine how MacDonald can be so amazingly readable page after page. Maybe a MacDonald novel is like light in that famous physics conundrum (Michaelson-Morley?)--to define light, one must "stop" it in its tracks, and then it isn't light anymore, i.e. the observation of it affects it.

This time McGee is trying to recover some stamps that have gotten switched for cheaper versions. Along the way McGee makes his typical observations about life and politics, adds a few more scars to his battered body, and becomes a little wiser.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Of stamps, women, and introspection., Jul 2 2001

By	Robert S. Clay Jr. (St. Louis, MO., USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Scarlet Ruse (Mass Market Paperback)

Travis McGee embarks on another of his trademark "salvage" missions involving a fortune in missing rare stamps. McGee's ruminations on people, relationships, human aspirations, money, politics, etc. are amusing social commentary, albeit thirty years later. Some of the observations of life in the '70s seem dated, but not enough to matter. Beyond this slight quibble, there is the vicious killer, and the complex mystery of the missing stamps. In addition, we have Mary Alice McDermit, a dark-haired giant of a woman with a healthy sex-drive and a troubled past. The lovable Meyer is present, still pontificating on economics and human foibles. As mystery-suspense novels go, the Travis McGee series is a perennial favorite. John D. MacDonald stresses introspection and character development rather than blood and thunder action. The typical Florida setting is exotic. Altogether, good lightweight reading material for summer vacations or anytime. ;-)

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3.0 out of 5 stars A McGee of a different color, Sep 8 2000

By	Larry Eischen (Joliet, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scarlet Ruse (Mass Market Paperback)

This reads like an excellent MacDonald suspense novel. You know, those stories he wrote before McGee where a bunch of nasty characters get caught in some nefarious scheme. But it's subpar McGee. It's like MacDonald Started one type of novel and finished with another. Don't get me wrong, if McGee and Meyer had been replaced by characters named Joe Smith and Fred Jones, it would have been great. It just ain't McGee.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Good Story
I wasn't sure about Darren McGavin reading these books. I thought he was too different from who I thought Travis McGee was. Jimmy Buffett maybe, but Darren McGavin? Read more

Published on Jul 23 2000

3.0 out of 5 stars After the Fall
A more pessimistic MacDonald (and McGee) emerges after a writing hiatus of some years. The difference between earlier McGee stories and the 'new' series beginning with Scarlet... Read more

Published on April 9 2000 by Rolfe Windward

2.0 out of 5 stars sleeper - comparitively
I give this two stars only in comparison to other Travis McGee novels. This one is just not up to par with the rest of the series. Read more

Published on May 21 1999