The Deep Blue Goodbye: No.4 (CRIME MASTERWORKS) - Softcover

Travis McGee, beach bum and ¿salvage expert¿ (he¿ll retrieve what you¿ve lost for 50 per cent), lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale. Instead of taking retirement at sixty, he takes it in chunks as he goes along. If he likes you he¿ll help you, and he likes Cathy Kerr, who has been robbed of everything but her dignity ... the first in the series establishes the fast-talking, wisecracking standard MacDonald maintained for over 20 years.

John D MacDonald (1916-1986)
MacDonald was born in Sharon, Pa, and educated at the Universities of Pennsylvania, Syracuse and Harvard, where he took an MBA in 1939. After war service in the Far East he wrote hundreds of stories for the pulps and over seventy novels, including the 21 in the Travis McGee sequence.