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The Scarlet Ruse
The Scarlet Ruse: A Travis McGee Novel | John D. MacDonald
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Travis McGee is too busy with his houseboat to pay attention to the little old man with the missing postage stamps. Except these are no ordinary stamps. They are rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth of rare. And if McGee doesn't recognize their value, perhaps Mary Alice McDermit does, a six-foot knockout who knows all the ways to a boat bum's heart. Only it's not McGee's heart that's in danger. Because a syndicate killer has put a contract on McGee. A killer who knows something about stamps . . . and even more about McGee.
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"He wore a brown denim suit with lots of pockets and ropes and zippers, and a yellow velvet shirt, open to the umbilicus. His face was bland–brown, hairless as his brown smooth chest. Sleepy eyes, languid manner, thin little mouth, like a newborn shark."

- McDonald, who could write em, and never forget it.

LeahBergen "Open to the umbilicus". That's great. 8y
Curley_Bender Nice choice of pic with the inverted Jenny. Saw those bad boys recently at the National Postal Museum, which is very underrated--the Dwight Evans of national museums. 8y
Shawty Love McDonald. He was a vocabulary master. 7y
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