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John Dann Macdonald

Male : Novelist. Wrote 65 novels, selling over 70 million copies. Also had 500 stories published in magazines.
Nationality : American Place of Birth : Sharon, Pennsylvania

Date of Birth : 1916 Date of Death : 1986 Age : 70

Education : Utica Free Academy, Syracuse Univ, & Harvard Graduate School of Business
1951-1955
The Brass Cupcake
(1951 Fawcett Gold Medal pbs) (1955 Frederick Muller from here)
Murder for the Bride
(1951) (1954)
Judge Me Not
(1951) (1964 Muller Pb)
Weep for Me
(1951) (1954)
Wine of the Dreamers
(1951 Greenberg) (1967 Robert Hale)
Ballroom of the Skies
(1952 Greenberg)
The Damned
(1952) (1964)
Dead Low Tide
(1953) (1955)
The Neon Jungle
(1953) (1954)
Cancel All our Vows
(1953 Appleton-Century) (1955 Robert Hale from here
Contrary Pleasure (1954 Appleton Century Crofts) (1955 RH)
Area of Suspicion
(1954 Dell) (1956)
All These Condemned
(1954) (1955 Signet US) - pb
A Bullet for Cinderella
(1955 Dell) (1960)
Cry Hard, Cry Fast
(1955 Popular Library) (1969)

1956-1960
April Evil
(1956 Dell) (1957)
You Live Once
(1956 Popular Library) (1976)
Murder in the Wind
(1956 Dell) (1957)
Border Town Girl
(1956 Popular Library pb) (1970)
Death Trap
(1957 Dell) (1958)
The Empty Trap
(1957 Popular Library) (1958)
The Price of Murder
(1957 Dell) (1958)
A Man of Affairs
(1957 Dell) (1959)
Clemmie
(1958 GM)
The Executioners
(1958 Simon & Schuster) (1959)
[Filmed in 1991 as "Cape Fear"]
Soft Touch
(1958 Dell) (1960)
The Deceivers
(1958 Dell) (1968)
The Beach Girls
(1959 GM) (1964 FM)
The Crossroads
(1959 Simon & Schuster) (1961)
Deadly Welcome
(1959 Dell) (1961)
Please Write for Details
(1959 S & S)
(Ed) The Lethal Sex (1959 Dell) (1962 Collins)
The End of the Night
(1960 S & S) (1964)
The Only Girl in the Game
(1960 GM) (1962)
Slam the Big Door
(1960 GM) (1961)

1961-1970
One Monday We Killed them All
(1961 GM) (1963)
Where is Janice Gantry ?
(1961 GM) (1963)
A Flash of Green
(1962 S & S) (1971)
The Girl, The Gold Watch and Everything
(1962 Gold Medal) (1964 Frederick Muller)
A Key to the Suite
(1962 GM) (1968)
The Drowner
(1963 GM) (1964)
I Could Go on Singing
(1963 GM) (1964)
The House Guests
(1965 Doubleday) (1966 RH)
End of the Tiger & Other Stories
(1966 GM) (1967)
No Deadly Drug
(1968 Doubleday)

After 1971
S*E*V*E*N
(1971 GM) (1974) - ss
Condominium
(1977 Lippincott) (1977)
Other Times, Other Worlds
(1978 Gold Medal) - ss
Nothing Can Go Wrong
(1981 Harper) - with John H Kilpack
The Good Old Stuff
(1982 Harper) (1984 Collins) - ss
More Good Old Stuff
(1984 Knopf) - ss
One More Sunday
(1984 Knopf) ((1984 Hodder & Stoughton)
Barrier Island
(1986 Knopf) (1987 H &S)
A Friendship : The Letters of Dan Roawan & John D MacDonald
(1986 Knopf)
The Annex and Other Stories
(1987 Eurographica, Helsinki) - 350 signed
Reading for Survival
(1987 Library of Congress)

TRAVIS McGEE SERIES
US Fawcett Gold Medal Pbs & UK Robert Hale Hb unless stated
The Deep Blue Good-By
(1964) (1965)
Nightmare in Pink
(1964) (1966)
A Purple Place for Dying
(1964) (1966)
The Quick Red Fox
(1964) (1966)
A Deadly Shade of Gold
(1965) (1967)
Bright Orange for the Shroud
(1965) (1967)
Darker Than Amber
(1966) (1968)
[Filmed in 1970]
One Fearful Yellow Eye
(1966) (1968)
The Last One Left
(1967 Doubleday) (1968)
Three for McGee
(1967 Doubleday)
Pale Gray for Guilt
(1968) (1969)
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper
(1973) (1969)
Dress Her in Indigo
(1969) (1971)
The Long Lavender Look
(1970) (1970 Coronet pb)
A Tan and Sandy Silence
(1972) (1973)
The Scarlet Ruse
(1973 ) (1975)
The Turquoise Lament
(1973 Lippincott) (1975)
McGee
(1975 RH)
The Dreadful Lemon Sky
(1975 Lippincott) (1976)
The Empty Copper Sea
(1978 Lippincott) (1979)
The Green Ripper
(1979 Lippincott) (1980)
Free Fall in Crimson
(1981 Harper) (1981)
Cinnamon Skin
(1982 Harper) (1982 Collins)
The Official Travis McGee Quizbook by John Brogan
(1984 GM)
The Best of Travis McGee
(1985 RH)
The Lonely Silver Rain
(1985 Knopf) (1985 Hodder & Stoughton)

READING
John D MacDonald and the Colourful World of Travis McGee by Frank D Campbell Jnr
(1977 Borgo Press)
A Bibliography of the Published Works of Travis McGee by Jean & Walter Shine
(1981 Univ of Florida)
John D MacDonald by Geherin
(1982 Ungar US)
Hair of Sleuthhound by Jon L Breen
(1982 Scarecrow Press)