The Deep Blue Good-by is the first of 21 novels in the Travis McGee series by American author John D. MacDonald. Commissioned in 1964 by Fawcett Publications editor Knox Burger, the book establishes for the series an investigative protagonist in a residential Florida base—as well as a cyclical form: All McGee novel titles have a color in them. (MacDonald also included color in a further two unrelated novels: (A Flash of Green and The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything).
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