Pat,
Re your question below:
> Everybody knows but me. At least that is how
it
> seems. What is the role of
> the colors in the John MacDonald titles?
I'm
> usually a quick study but
> countless novels later, I cannot see a
pattern.
> Without a clue!
In an interview I once read, MacDonald said that the only
reason for the colors was to provide readers with an
easy-to-remember clue as to whether or not they'd read the
book before.
Hence, "No, I've already read the SCARLET one; haven't read
the AMBER one, but I recall seeing the movie; is
'TURQUOISE' even a color?" etc.
So the only pattern was that a color word in a given McGee
title had to be one he hadn't used prior to that point.
It could still get confusing. He wrote a non-series book
called A FLASH OF GREEN some years before starting the McGee
series. Years later he wrote a McGee book called THE GREEN
RIPPER.
JIM DOHERTY
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