A Deadly Shade of Gold Author:John D. Macdonald A long-ago face from a faraway past - Sam Taggart dropped in from nowhere on the girl he'd left behind - and on his old buddy Travis McGee. And at one o'clock that night McGee opened the door to Taggart's cheap motel unit to find his friend's throat neatly cut from ear to ear and his body lying in a lake of blood smelling like freshly sheared c... more »opper...« less