From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Scarlet Ruse is one of many classic novels featuring Travis Mc Gee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat.
Features a new Introduction by Lee Child.
He soon realizes that he\'s run afoul of a vicious syndicate, and neither rain, nor sleet, nor gloom of night will keep them from collecting Mc Gee\'s head.
Only it\'s not Mc Gee\'s heart that\'s in danger.
Soon Mc Gee is hot on the trail of the missing collection--not to mention hot for a voluptuous stamp expert by the name of Mary Alice.
Lucky for Hirsh, he\'s got a friend in Travis Mc Gee.
Assessed at around four hundred thousand dollars, these are no ordinary stamps, and Sprenger\'s no ordinary collector: He\'s liable to break some fingers if he doesn\'t get what he\'s owed. ``The Travis Mc Gee novels are among the finest works of fiction ever penned by an American author.``--Jonathan Kellerman Hirsh Fedderman has misplaced an extremely valuable commodity: the stamp collection of mobster Frank Sprenger.
To deliver on this case, Mc Gee will have to be suspicious of everyone he meets--because what he\'s looking for is property of the mob.
But when he hears that six figures\' worth of rare stamps have wandered off, Mc Gee finds himself back in the salvage business.
Drinking Boodles on the Busted Flush has become a full-time job.
Travis Mc Gee\'s getting lazy.
From a beloved master of crime fiction, The Scarlet Ruse is one of many classic novels featuring Travis Mc Gee, the hard-boiled detective who lives on a houseboat
