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The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
  
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by John D. MacDonald (Author)
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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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Stephen King called John MacDonald ""the" great entertainer of our age". Now, Fawcett is proud to introduce to a new generation a character endowed with the values of a hero. The values of a hero never change--and neither does Travis McGee. --This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Poor Nurse Penny, July 8 2004
By Clare Quilty (a little pad in hawaii) - See all my reviews
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 out of 5 stars A Thinking Man's Mystery Novel, Aug 16 2001
By Paul Skinner (Manassas, Virginia United States) - See all my reviews
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 out of 5 stars My first McGee novel. A very good start!, Mar 12 2001
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This review is from: Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Mass Market Paperback)
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 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Feb 28 2000 by toddwylie

4.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on Jan 12 2000 by matt wallace

5.0 out of 5 stars 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
Published on July 7 1998

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