Works by
John D. MacDonald
(Writer)
[1916 - 1986]

Fiction

• The Brass Cupcake (1950)

• Judge Me Not (1951)

• Murder for the Bride (1951)

• Cancel All Our Vows (1953)

• The Neon Jungle (1953)

• All These Condemned (1954)

• Area of Suspicion (1954)

• Contrary Pleasure (1954)

• A Bullet For Cinderella (1955)

• Cry Hard Cry Fast (1955)

• April Evil (1956)

• Murder in the Wind (1956)

• You Live Once (1956)

• A Man of Affairs (1957)

• Death Trap (1957)

• The Empty Trap (1957)

• The Price of Murder (1957)

• Clemmie(1958)

• Soft Touch (1958)

• The Executioners (aka Cape Fear) (1958)

• Deadly Welcome (1959)

• Please Write for Details (1959)

• The Beach Girls (1959)

• The Crossroads (1959)

• Slam the Big Door (1960)

• The End Of The Night (1960)

• The Only Girl in the Game (1960)

• The Drowner (1961)

• Where is Janice Gantry? (1961)

• A Flash of Green (1962)

• Key To The Suite (1962)

• On the Run (1963)

• The Last One Left (1966)

• Condominium 1977)

• One More Sunday (1984)

• Barrier Island (1985)

Travis McGee Series

1. A Purple Place for Dying (1964)

2. Nightmare in Pink (1964)

3. Deep Blue Good-by (1964)

4. Quick Red Fox (1964)

5. A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965)

6. Bright Orange for the Shroud (1965)

7. Darker Than Amber (1966)

8. One Fearful Yellow Eye (1966)

9. Pale Gray for Guilt (1968)

10. Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (1968)

11. Dress Her in Indigo (1969)

12. The Long Lavender Look (1970)

13. A Tan and Sandy Silence (1972)

14. The Scarlet Ruse (1973)

15. Turquoise Lament (1973)

16. The Dreadful Lemon Sky (1975)

17. The Empty Copper Sea (1978)

18. The Green Ripper (1979)

19. Free Fall in Crimson (1981)

20. Cinnamon Skin (1982)

21. The Lonely Silver Rain (1985)

Collections

• Border Town Girl (1956)
  Two novellas

• Three for McGee (1967)
  1st three Mcgees: A Purple Place for Dying, Nightmare in Pink, and Deep Blue Good-by

• Shades of Travis McGee (1970) (Fox...Guilt...Indigo)

• Five Complete Travis McGee Novels  (1985)
  A Tan and Sandy Silence, The Dreadful Lemon Sky, The Empty Copper Sea, The Green Ripper, and Free Fall in Crimson

Non-fiction

• No Deadly Drug (1968)
  Examines on an F. Lee Bailey case about the murder trials of Dr. Carl Coppolino for the killing of his anesthesiologist wife, Dr. Carmen Coppolino.

Science Fiction

• Wine of the Dreamers (1951)

• Ballroom of the Skies (1952)

• Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything (1962)

• Other Times, Other Worlds (1978)
  Collection

Short Stories

• End of the Tiger and Other Stories (1966)

• S*E*V*E*N (1974)

• The Good Old Stuff (1982)

• More Good Old Stuff (1984)

See also:

• John D. MacDonald and the Colorful World of Travis McGee (1977) by Frank D. Campbell

• The Official Travis McGee Quiz Book (1984) by John Brogan

• Mystery For Christmas (1990) by Cynthia Manson (1990)
  Anthony Boucher, George Baxt, Herbert Resnicow, James Powell, John D. MacDonald, Linda Haldeman, Malcolm McClintick, Margery Allingham, Patricia Moyes, Rex Stout, Thomas Larry Adcock, and Tom Tolnay

• Meditations on America: John D. Macdonald's Travis McGee Series and Other Fiction (1994) by Lewis D. Moore