At the book store.........................................................
It is one of the sorry human habits to play the game of: What was I doing when it happened?
After I heard that Helena Pearson had died on Thursday the third day of October, I had no trouble reconstructing the immediate past.
That Thursday had been the fourth and final day of a legitimate little job of marine salvage. Meyer made a lot of small jokes about Travis McGee, salvage expert, actually doing some straight-arrow salvage. He kept saying it almost made my cover story believable. But he did not say such things for any ears by mine own.
-John D. MacDonald, being the opening paragraphs of The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper
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J.D.McDonald and his Travis McGee were the man. E.
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