A Purple Place for Dying
by MACDONALD, John D
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0397011660
- ISBN 13
- 9780397011667
- Seller
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Synopsis
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short-story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear . In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980, he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life, he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business, he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010416
- Title
- A Purple Place for Dying
- Author
- MACDONALD, John D
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0397011660
- ISBN 13
- 9780397011667
- Publisher
- Lippincott
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- Mystery; Travis McGee
- Bookseller catalogs
- Mystery;
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