Order of Travis McGee Books
Travis McGee is a creation of prolific American novelist John D. MacDonald. McGee is not a cop or a private investigator, but rather a professional salvage consultant who finds other people’s property when he runs low on spare cash. He considers himself a beach bum and lives on a houseboat in Fort Lauderdale.
The Travis McGee series was started in 1964 with The Deep Blue Good-by and spanned 21 novels up until The Lonely Silver Rain in 1985. A theme of the novels is that each book has a colour in the title. The series ended due to MacDonald’s death, preventing any finality to the series. Below is the order in which the Travis McGee books were released (also the chronological order):
Publication Order of Travis McGee Books
The Deep Blue Good-By | (1964) | |
Nightmare in Pink | (1964) | |
A Purple Place for Dying | (1964) | |
The Quick Red Fox | (1964) | |
A Deadly Shade of Gold | (1965) | |
Bright Orange for the Shroud | (1965) | |
Darker Than Amber | (1966) | |
One Fearful Yellow Eye | (1966) | |
Pale Gray for Guilt | (1968) | |
The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper | (1968) | |
Dress Her in Indigo | (1969) | |
The Long Lavender Look | (1970) | |
A Tan and Sandy Silence | (1971) | |
The Scarlet Ruse | (1972) | |
The Turquoise Lament | (1973) | |
The Dreadful Lemon Sky | (1974) | |
The Empty Copper Sea | (1978) | |
The Green Ripper | (1979) | |
Free Fall in Crimson | (1981) | |
Cinnamon Skin | (1982) | |
The Lonely Silver Rain | (1984) |