The Long Lavender Look M2325 Author:John D. MacDonald It began, the way all McGee's adventures began. From left filed. 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 tawny haunch by one micro-second, and landed upside down inten feet of swamp... more » 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 local sheriff to complain and found himself arrested for murder.