John D MacDonald – Travis McGee 10 The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper

“You. Definitely. Looked down from the sundeck and saw you standing there and nearly choked to death.” I reached an idle finger and hooked it into the back of the wrapped and tucked towel. One gentle tug untucked it and it fell, pooling around her. She slowly straightened her long, slender, lovely back. She reached and picked up her drink and took half of it down, then replaced it.

“May I assume you are quite serious, Mr. McGee?”

“It is crummy weather out there, and you have an extraordinarily fine back, and you were pleasantly bitchy about Miss Pearson, so I am serious, my dear.”

“Shall I bother to finish these last three fingernails?”

“Please do, Mrs. Holton.”

“I shall try to finish them, Mr. McGee. I think it would be good for my character, what little I have left.”

So I listened to the busy little buzz of the nail file and admired her, and sipped the drink, and thought about the way she had looked that day I had watched her spray-painting that old blue metal chaise.

And then I heard the wind-blown January rain move in from the sea and across the beaches and the boat basin and roar softly and steadily down on the weather decks of my houseboat.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

John D. MacDonald was graduated from Syracuse University and received an MBA from the Harvard Business School. He and his wife, Dorothy, had one son and several grandchildren. Mr. MacDonald died in December 1986.

Other Books by John D. MacDonald

All These Condemned

April Evil

Area Of Suspicion

Ballroom Of The Skies

The Beach Girls

The Brass Cupcake

A Bullet For Cinderella

Clemmie

The Crossroads

Deadly Welcome

Death Trap

The Deceivers

The Drowner

The Empty Trap

The End Of The Night

The Executioners

A Flash Of Green

The Girl, The Gold Watch & Everything

Judge Me Not

A Man Of Affairs

Murder In The Wind

The Neon Jungle

On The Run

One Monday We Killed Them All

The Only Girl In The Game

Please Write For Details

The Price Of Murder

Slam The Big Door

Soft Touch

Where Is Janice Gantry?

Wine Of The Dreamers

And in the Travis Mcgee Series

01 The Deep Blue Good-By

02 Nightmare In Pink

03 A Purple Place For Dying

04 The Quick Red Fox

05 A Deadly Shade Of Gold

06 Bright Orange For The Shroud

07 Darker Than Amber

08 One Fearful Yellow Eye

09 Pale Gray For Guilt

10 The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper

The End

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