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Book Review of The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee, Bk 10)

The Girl in the Plain Brown Wrapper (Travis McGee, Bk 10)
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An interesting book by another underrated, lost, and almost forgotten novelist. This one is murder mystery in the vein of Mary Roberts Rinehart, Dorothy L. Sayers, Dashiell Hammett, and Raymond Chandler. One of the Travis McGee novels all titled to include a hue from the color spectrum. While it is a bit slow to set the background for the plot, it gets interesting once a crime is perceived. McGee, something other than a professional detective, has the qualities of a Sam Spade, or Philip Marlowe, bedding down the best of the dames (although not all of themhe does pass on some), but always with a more polished prose. The author, always the sociological sexologist, is up to tune. Not a shabby read for a quiet evening or two.