Professional “salvage consultant” Travis McGee doesn’t much care for the idea of taking on a case of missing postage stamps, no matter how valuable they apparently are. But lately Trav has been taking one of his long “installments” on his retirement and he needs to replenish his accounts. So he sits down with Hirsh Fedderman, a friend of his friend Meyer, and hears all about how over $400,000 worth of a mobster’s stamp collection have been switched out of a safety deposit box and replaced […]

Linda Lewellyn Brindle, “Pidge” to all her friends, has certainly grown up since the days of her wildly inappropriate teenage crush on her father’s friend Travis McGee. After her father’s untimely death she inherited a fortune, married a football player and took off on a journey around the world in her sailboat. When she calls McGee from Hawaii saying she’s in trouble he drops everything to help. It turns out life isn’t as dreamy as it sounds. Either Pidge’s husband is trying to kill her […]

Travis McGee and his friend Meyer are on their way back from a wedding late at night on a dark road when a strange young woman dashes in front of McGee’s beloved car. In his attempt to avoid her, McGee winds up putting his blue Rolls-Royce into the river and thus begins a bizarre series of events which leads to him and Meyer being arrested for Meyer. The set-up looks airtight but with the help of a high-powered lawyer who owes him a favor, McGee […]

A beautiful movie star desperately needs Travis McGee’s help and is willing to take him to bed to get it, but McGee is more intrigued by her coolly efficient personal assistant. When McGee agrees to hunt down the shutterbug blackmailing starlet Lysa Dean over some dirty photos, he is surprised to find that the assistant is part of the deal. As the two of them crisscross the country tracking down potential suspects, McGee discovers hidden depths in the strangely alluring woman he’s been partnered with. […]

Travis McGee isn’t sure he wants to take on his newest prospective client, despite the fact that his “retirement fund” is running low. Something about Mona Yeoman annoys him, however much he might sympathize with the fact that she’s stuck in a loveless marriage to a rich man who has robbed her of her father’s estate. However, his mind is made up for him when a sniper’s bullet cuts Mona’s life short and Travis finds himself on the wrong side of the local police after […]