The Long Lavender Look Author:John D. MacDonald It began the way all McGee's adventures began. From left field. Only this time it was right in front of his car. — This lovely young thing, wearing little more than a frightened look, streaked out of the darkness into his headlights. McGee hit the brakes, missed the nymphet's tawny haunch by one micro-second, and landed upside down in ten feet... more » of swamp water.
Two minutes later, with McGee upright and limping along the deserted Florida road, someone zoomed by in an old truck and took a couple of shots at him. Well, this was not McGee's idea of Southern hospitality. So he went to the local sheriff to complain -- and found himself arrested for murder.« less