John D. MacDonald
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It's been a few years since I read any MacDonald, and a few years more since I read one of the Travis McGee novels. I'd been reading them in order, and this one was the next in sequence. It was also the only one I was missing.
I'd had an urge to read MacDonald for a while, sort of a mental itch that wouldn't go away, and so I decided to pick up this series where I'd left off. A quick online check found a good copy in the editions I was collecting for a few bucks plus shipping, so I placed my order.
Much of this one takes place in Chicago in the winter, not your typical setting for a McGee novel. Travis gets a call from an old girlfriend. Her rich older husband has died of cancer. This was expected. His fortune, which he had said he would divide between her and his two grown children, has vanished. Over a period of several months before his death, he quietly liquidated most of it. This was not expected.
