TheScarlet Ruse Author:John D. MacDonald McGee was too busy with his beloved houseboat, The Busted Flush, to pay attention to the little old man with his missing postage stamps. Except that they weren't ordinary stamps. No indeed. They were rare stamps. Four hundred thousand dollars worth. Even so, McGee was not all that turned on until a genereously endowed amazon named Mary Alice... more » McDermit made her grand entrance.« less