I was doing a little research and I came across an article on
The Green Ripper published in Time Magazine. It begins like
this:
Locked inside a beige file cabinet in Sarasota, Fla., is an
unfinished manuscript entitled A Black Border for McGee. May
it never be published. The book, as its name suggests, would
write finis to Travis McGee, the perdurable, persnickety
shamus whose demise, white-haired Author John Dann MacDonald
once vowed, would occur after his tenth color-coded* starring
role. "I keep the MS.," says the author, "as leverage on my
publisher." The latest McGee, The Green Ripper, is the 18th
in the Travis saga, and the best.
Here's the link to the full article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,916954,00.html
It would appear that John D. MacDonald is confirming the
existence of the rumored final Travis McGee novel. Has the
existence of this manuscript, completed or not, ever been
confirmed? Was MacDonald having some fun, or did he actually
write a novel where McGee dies? Has anyone on the list done
any research on this, or know of anyone who has?
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