John D. MacDonald - The Good Old Stuff Hardcover First Edition Book

This listing is for John D. MacDonald - The Good Old Stuff Hardcover First Edition Book.

Publisher: Harper & Row; First Edition (January 1, 1982)

Language: English

Hardcover: 395 pages

ISBN-10: 0060150386

ISBN-13: 978-0060150389

This collection of short fiction, written by a master mystery writer at the beginning of his career, will delight readers with its early examples of a superb storytelling skill and with its assembly of Travis McGee prototypes. Before John D. MacDonald achieved great commercial success and critical acclaim as the author of hardcover novels, he was best known for writing paperback originals. And before that, he made his living writing short stories for various pulp magazines. The Good Old Stuff, published in 1982, contains 13 such stories culled from various detective and mystery magazines. These stories were all originally published between 1947 and 1952.

John Dann MacDonald (July 24, 1916 - December 28, 1986) was an American writer of novels and short stories, known for his thrillers. MacDonald was a prolific author of crime and suspense novels, many of them set in his adopted home of Florida. His best-known works include the popular and critically acclaimed Travis McGee series, and his novel The Executioners, which was filmed twice as Cape Fear. In 1972, MacDonald was named a grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, and he won a 1980 U.S. National Book Award in the one-year category Mystery. Stephen King praised MacDonald as "the great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller." Kingsley Amis said, MacDonald "is by any standards a better writer than Saul Bellow, only MacDonald writes thrillers and Bellow is a human-heart chap, so guess who wears the top-grade laurels."

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