The Colors in a Writer’s Mind–John D. MacDonald & Travis McGee
Almost as good as finding a Travis McGee novel I’ve not read? Rbt Fulford’s essay on McGee creator John D. MacDonald. bit.ly/11OAD3b
— Philip Turner (@philipsturner) May 6, 2013

According to the National Post column by Robert Fulford that I tweeted about earlier, Random House is reissuing all 21 of John MacDonald’s Travis McGee novels, and many of his books that were not in the McGee series. I hope they include in the latter group, The Executioners, the book that was adapted for the movie “Cape Fear,” in the first instance starring Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, and Polly Bergen (1962) and later, Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, and Jessica Lange (1991). The McGee titles were all color-coded, so readers could remember which ones they’d read, and which they’d missed. I love these suspense books and am glad to see they’re coming back, as paperbacks and ebooks. I love these books and have blogged about them frequently in the past couple years. I bet this John D. MacDonald fan page on Facebook where I found the Fulford column, posted by a fellow fan. At Undercover Books, where I worked from 1978-85, we stocked and sold and reordered all these titles. Most of the books in the gallery below were in the library of my late brother, Joel Turner, which I brought in to my own library after his death in 2009.
- Spines of my 16 John D. MacDonald Fawcett paperbacks.
- One of the Travis McGee novels (top), always with a color in the title, and one of his non-McGee books.
- My well-read John D. MacDonald paperbacks.
- Published in 1957, “The Executioners” was adapted in to “Cape Fear”
- Robert Mitchum as Max Cady in “Cape Fear.”
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