Charles,
It's been a while since I've read them, but I loved the
Travis McGee series (well, at least the first 11 or 12), went
through them all in order. However, I'm with you on the
standalones. I haven't read a whole lot of them, but none
that I have has really hit me. As you say, they are very
professionally wrtten, but they don't quite come together for
me. Maybe it's that he's too much a moralist. That worked
fine for me in the first person McGee books (wonder if it
still would, should reread one), even enjoyed the rants.
However, I never really buy his gray characters as really
gray. And I have found the '50s immediately falling in love
cliche a bit harder to take in his books.
As I said, I haven't read that many of his standalones, but I
have read some that are supposed to be among his best, like
The Executioners and The Brass Cupcake.
Mark
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