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John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 – December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories. He is known for his thrillers. MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many set in his adopted home of Florida.
6 de may. de 2022 · Peter Swanson revisits an iconic crime fiction series, in its entirety. Back when I was a thirteen-year-old regular at my local used bookstore I discovered the novels of John D. MacDonald, those beat-up little paperbacks with lurid covers and great titles.
19 de abr. de 2024 · John D. MacDonald was an American fiction writer whose mystery and science-fiction works were published in more than 70 books. He is best remembered for his series of 21 crime novels featuring private investigator Travis McGee.
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1. DEAD LOW TIDE. Here were see how JDM differed from most paperback hardboiled writers by taking the crime into the middle class. The falsely accused protagonist is a construction estimator—though he’s had a tough military background—trying to work his way up in his calling.
Escritor americano, John D. MacDonald escribió casi ochenta novelas policiacas, muchas de las cuales ambientó en Florida, protagonizadas por su personaje preferido, Travis McGee. Varias de sus novelas fueron llevadas al cine, destacando la película El cabo del miedo ( 1962 ).
24 de jul. de 2018 · Before it was all over, he’d have published more than 60 novels and 500 short stories, written under various names and ranging from westerns to sci-fi adventures to crime classics like The Executioners and, most famously, the twenty-one novels starring Travis McGee.
11 de ago. de 2018 · Those crime novels that he produced during this period are masters of the form — spare, tight, often dark and even nasty tales of desperate men in way over their heads; taut morbid fables with psychological underpinnings and a burgeoning environmental awareness, often set in his adopted state of Florida.
