Sometimes this idle aimless browsing
leaves you in a dilemma … here I was at a loose end and found myself looking
for novels by Ross Macdonald … totally unintended … yeah, it is true that
secondhand copies of Ross Macdonald’s Archer novels are not that easy to come
by … I had located some Archer novels a couple of months ago, and after a lot
of to buy or not to buy, and futile resistance, I finally gave up and gave in …
it was in the aftermath of the placing of this order and waiting for the books
to be delivered that I was typing ‘Macdonald’ in the search boxes … at one of
the portals, my search results saw me staring at a list of John D. MacDonald’s
‘Travis McGee’ novels … I had unexpectedly
‘discovered’ John D. MacDonald and his series of Travis McGee novels in 2015 (while looking for Ross Macdonald novels)
and had picked up quite a good number of the novels in the series in two big bursts
(described with a great deal of zest and zeal here and here) …
And now, two years later, I was
looking at four more Travis McGee novels … prices were reasonable … no reason
to dilly or dally … or delay … and the four novels arrived two days back … I
just loved the covers … and the blurbs on the covers … and take a look at the
titles … each title has a ‘colour,’ no? … all Travis McGee novels have a
‘colour’ word in their titles … it was suggested by John D. MacDonald’s
publisher and was supposed to act as a mnemonic device for the reader …
Dress her in Indigo … a slight hint of
indigo on the cover … the 11th in the series … came out in 1969, and
this is the 35th reprint 1991 edition …
The Green Ripper … nice green coloured
cover … the 18th in the series, published in 1979, and this copy is
the 1980 edition …
Free Fall in Crimson … crimson coloured cover
… the 19th in the series, published in 1981 … and this copy is a
1981 edition … first edition … hmmmm ….
The last novel in the series … The
Lonely Silver Rain … you can see the silver in the title letters … came
out in 1985, and this is a 1986 edition …
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