· From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Long Lavender Look is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, streaks out of Brand: Random House Publishing Group. From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Long Lavender Look is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, streaks out of the darkness and into Travis McGee's headlights. McGee hits the brakes, misses the fleeing soul by inches, and lands upside down in ten feet of 4/5(6). The Long Lavender Look in particular has some truly frightening characters, on both sides of the law, as well more violence and hard deaths than I remembered. McGee has an existential darkness that is unlike some of my other first-person mystery favorites such as Spenser and Kinsey Millhone/5().
MacDonald has fully hit his stride in this 11th outing with Travis McGee. "Long Lavender Look" is vintage, deep-south McGee with a strong plot matching the depth of characterization. Trav and Meyer are returning home on a little traveled route in Cypress County when a girl darts into the high beam of the headlights. 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 bltadwin.ru MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in , he won a National Book Award. Long Lavender Look. John D. MacDonald. Fawcett Crest, - Fiction - pages. 6 Reviews "McGee has become part of our national fabric." SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER.
The Long Lavender Look () is the twelfth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. After the preceding book, Dress Her in Indigo, which was largely set in Mexico, The Long Lavender Look not only returns to McGee's usual haunt of Florida, but is almost entirely set in one tiny town deep in the rural part of the state. From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Long Lavender Look is one of many classic novels featuring Travis McGee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat. A lovely young thing, wearing little more than a determined look, streaks out of the darkness and into Travis McGee’s headlights. The Long Lavender Look is another fun Travis McGee mystery by MacDonald. This one takes place in South Florida. It begins when McGee just misses a young woman who runs in front of him on the road and causes him to swerve and land in 10 feet of swamp water. He then gets shot at trying to get help.
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