Order of Travis McGee Books
Travis McGee is a creation of prolific American novelist John D. MacDonald. McGee is not a cop or a private investigator, but rather a professional salvage consultant who finds other people’s property when he runs low on spare cash. He considers himself a beach bum and lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale.
The Travis McGee series was started in 1964 with The Deep Blue Good-by and spanned 21 novels up until The Lonely Silver Rain in 1985. A theme of the novels is that each book has a colour in the title. The series ended due to MacDonald’s death, preventing any finality to the series. Below is the order in which the Travis McGee books were released (also the chronological order):
Publication Order of Travis McGee Books
| The Deep Blue Good-By | (1964) |    |
| Nightmare in Pink | (1964) | |
| A Purple Place for Dying | (1964) | |
| The Quick Red Fox | (1964) | |
| A Deadly Shade of Gold | (1965) | |
| Bright Orange for the Shroud | (1965) | |
| Darker Than Amber | (1966) | |
| One Fearful Yellow Eye | (1966) | |
| Pale Gray for Guilt | (1968) | |
| The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper | (1968) | |
| Dress Her in Indigo | (1969) | |
| The Long Lavender Look | (1970) | |
| A Tan and Sandy Silence | (1971) | |
| The Scarlet Ruse | (1972) | |
| The Turquoise Lament | (1973) | |
| The Dreadful Lemon Sky | (1974) | |
| The Empty Copper Sea | (1978) | |
| The Green Ripper | (1979) | |
| Free Fall in Crimson | (1981) | |
| Cinnamon Skin | (1982) | |
| The Lonely Silver Rain | (1984) | |
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Travis McGee Synopses: The Deep Blue Good-by is the introduction of the Travis McGee character, created by John D. MacDonald. Travis McGee has good intentions, even if he isn’t perfect.
In the third book of the Travis McGee series, A Purple Place for Dying, Travis becomes a witness to the death of a wife who is trying to gain ownership of her husband’s estate.
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I am reading all of the Travis McGee novels in order, I am down to the last 2. My Dad turned me on to Travis McGee and I have loved them since I was 16. I have read them all several times, but I love reading them in order.
I wish John D MacDonald was still here cranking them out!
I want to buy the whole set how do i do that with out buying one at a time please respond it’s a gift for somebody
There’s this option: Here to get 5 of them and also this option.
I have all 21 TM books. A friend is reading them while he is in Florida and they will be available on March 1, 2013 if you still are looking.
Travis McGee is one of my favourite series of all time! I think I’ve read most of the series at least two times.