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"On July 28, 1841, the battered body of Mary Rogers, a twenty-year-old cigar girl who had disappeared three days earlier, was found floating in the Hudson. By nightfall, news of the death had sent Manhattan into a spasm of horror and outrage. In the months following, the grisly details of the murder pushed American journalism into new realms of lurid sensationalism. Despite the media pressure, New York's unregulated, disjointed police force proved...
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Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2000
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English
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Although John D. MacDonald published seventy novels and more than five hundred short stories in his lifetime, he is remembered best for his Travis McGee series. He introduced McGee in 1964 with The Deep Blue Goodbye. With Travis McGee, MacDonald changed the pattern of the hardboiled private detectives who preceded him. McGee has a social conscience, holds thoughtful conversations with his retired economist buddy Meyer, and worries about corporate...
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