RARA-AVIS: Bibliographies: John D. MacDonald

Books

Many thanks to John Woolley and Michael David Sharp.

* indicates a Travis McGee story.

• The Brass Cupcake (Fawcett Gold Medal, October 1950) (colour, but no McGee)
• Murder for the Bride (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1951)
• Judge Me Not (Fawcett Gold Medal, October 1951)
• Weep for Me (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1951)
• Wine of the Dreamers (Greenberg, 1951)
• The Damned (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1952)
• Ballroom of the Skies (Greenberg, 1952)
• Dead Low Tide (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1953)
• The Neon Jungle (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1953)
• Cancel All Our Vows (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1953)
• Planet Of The Dreamers (Pocket Books, 1953)
• All These Condemned (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1954)
• Area of Suspicion (Dell First Edition 12, 1954)
• Contrary Pleasure (Appleton-Century Crofts, 1954)
• A Bullet for Cinderella (Dell First Edition 62, 1955) (reprinted as On the Make)
• Cry Hard, Cry Fast (Popular Library 675, 1955)
• April Evil (Dell First Edition 85, 1956)
• Border Town Girl (Popular Library 750, 1956) (reprinted as Five Star Fugitive)
• Murder in the Wind (Dell First Edition A113, 1956) (reprinted as Hurricane)
• You Live Once (Popular Library 737, 1956) (reprinted as You Kill Me)
• Death Trap (Dell First Edition A130, February 1957)
• The Price of Murder (Dell First Edition A152, October 1957)
• The Empty Trap (Popular Library 830, December 1957
• A Man of Affairs (Dell First Edition B112, December 1957)
• The Deceivers (Dell First Edition B117, May 1958)
• Clemmie (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1958)
• The Executioners (Simon and Schuster, 1958) (reprinted as Cape Fear)
• Soft Touch (Dell First Edition B121, August 1958)
• Deadly Welcome (Dell First Edition B127, March 1959)
• The Beach Girls (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1959)
• Please Write for Details (Simon and Schuster, December 1959)
• The Crossroads (Simon and Schuster, 1959)
• The Lethal Sex (Dell First Edition B141, 1959) (editor) (stories by women mystery writers)
• Slam the Big Door (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1960)
• The Only Girl in the Game (Fawcett Gold Medal, July 1960)
• The End of the Night (Simon and Schuster, 1960)
• Where is Janice Gantry? (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1961)
• One Monday We Killed Them All (Fawcett Gold Medal s1177, December 1961)
• A Key to the Suite (Fawcett Gold Medal s1198, March 1962)
• The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything (Fawcett Gold Medal s1259, December 1962) (colour, but no McGee)
• A Flash Of Green (Simon and Schuster, 1962) (colour, but no McGee)
• I Could Go on Singing (Fawcett Gold Medal, March 1963) (screenplay novelization)
• On the Run (Fawcett Gold Medal k1292, April 1963)
• The Drowner (Fawcett Gold Medal k1302, May 1963)
• The Deep Blue Goodbye* (Fawcett Gold Medal k1405, April 1964)
• Nightmare in Pink* (Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1964)
• A Purple Place for Dying* (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1964)
• The Quick Red Fox* (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1964)
• Bright Orange for the Shroud* (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1965)
• A Deadly Shade of Gold* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1965)
• The House Guests (Doubleday, 1965) (nonfiction)
• Darker than Amber* (Fawcett Gold Medal, May 1966)
• The Last One Left (Doubleday, December 1966)
• One Fearful Yellow Eye* (Fawcett Gold Medal d1848, December 1966)
• End of the Tiger and Other Stories (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1966)
  • "Hangover"
  • "The Big Blue"
  • "End of the Tiger"
  • "The Trouble with Erica"
  • "Long Shot"
  • "Looie Follows Me"
  • "Blurred View"
  • "The Loveliest Girl in the World"
  • "Triangle"
  • "The Bear Trap"
  • "Romantic Courtesy"
  • "The Fast Loose Money"
  • "The Straw Witch"
  • "The Trap of Solid Gold"
  • "Afternoon of the Hero"
• Pale Gray for Guilt* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1968)
• The Girl In The Plain Brown Wrapper* (Fawcett Gold Medal, December 1968)
• No Deadly Drug (Doubleday, 1968) (nonfiction)
• Dress Her in Indigo* (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1969)
• The Long Lavender Look* (Fawcett Gold Medal, September 1970)
• S*E*V*E*N (Fawcett Gold Medal, 1971)
  • "The Random Noise of Love"
  • "Dear Old Friend"
  • "The Willow Pool"
  • "Quarrel"
  • "Woodchuck"
  • "Double Hannenframmis"
  • "The Annex"
• A Tan and Sandy Silence* (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1972)
• The Scarlet Ruse* (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1973)
• The Turquoise Lament* (Lippincott, November 1973)
• The Dreadful Lemon Sky* (Lippincott, February 1975)
• Condominium (Lippincott, March 1977)
• The Empty Copper Sea* (Lippincott, September 1978)
• Other Times, Other Worlds (Fawcett, 1978) (edited by MacDonald and Martin H. Greenberg; MacDonald wrote an afterword)
  • "The Mechanical Answer"
  • "Dance of a New World"
  • "Ring Around the Redhead"
  • "A Child is Crying"
  • "Flaw"
  • "But Not to Dream"
  • "The Miniature"
  • "Spectator Sport"
  • "Half-Past Eternity"
  • "The Big Contest"
  • "Susceptibility"
  • "Common Denominator"
  • "Game for Blondes"
  • "Labor Supply"
  • "The Legend of Joe Lee"
  • "The Annex"
• The Green Ripper* (Lippincott, September 1979)
• Free Fall in Crimson* (Harper and Row, April 1981)
• Nothing Can Go Wrong (Harper and Row, 1981) (with Captain John H. Kilpack)
• Cinnamon Skin* (Harper and Row, 1982)
• The Good Old Stuff (Harper and Row, 1982) (edited by Martin H. Greenberg, Francis M. Nevins, Jr., and Walter and Jean Shine)
  • "Murder for Money"
  • "Death Writes the Answer"
  • "Miranda"
  • "They Let Me Live"
  • "Breathe No More"
  • "From Some Hidden Grave"
  • "A Time for Dying"
  • "Noose for a Tigress"
  • "Murder in Mind"
  • "Check Out at Dawn"
  • "She Cannot Die"
  • "Dead on the Pin"
  • "A Trap for the Careless"
• Two (Carroll and Graf, 1983) (collection)
• More Good Old Stuff (Knopf, 1984) (collection)
  • "Deadly Damsel"
  • "State Police Report That ..."
  • "Death for Sale"
  • "A Corpse in His Dreams"
  • "I Accuse Myself"
  • "A Place to Live"
  • "Neighborly Interest"
  • "The Night is Over"
  • "Secret Stain"
  • "Even Up the Odds"
  • "Verdict"
  • "The High Gray Walls of Hate"
  • "Unmarried Widow"
  • "You Remember Jessie"
• One More Sunday (Knopf, 1984)
• The Lonely Silver Rain* (Knopf, 1985)
• Barrier Island (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986)
• A Friendship: The Letters of Dan Roawan and John D. MacDonald 1967-74 (Knopf, 1986)
• Reading for Survival (Library of Congress, 1987)

Short Fiction

1946

• "Conversation on Deck" (The American Courier, January 1946)
• "The Game" (The American Courier, February 1946)
• "Cash on the Coffin" (Detective Tales, May 1946)
• "A Handful of Death" (Doc Savage, June 1946) (as Peter Reed)
• "Blame Those Who Die" (Short Stories, 25 June 1946)
• "Bury the Pieces!" (Dime Mystery, July 1946)
• "The Flying Elephants" (Short Stories, 10 July 1946)
• "Interlude in India" (Story, July-August 1946)
• "The Dry Mouth of Danger" (Doc Savage, August 1946)
• "The Dead Dream" (The Shadow, September 1946)
• "Justice in the Sun" (Doc Savage, October 1946)
• "Female of the Species" (Dime Detective, October 1946)
• "Get Dressed for Death" (Mammoth Mystery, October 1946)
• "The Little People" (Doc Savage, November 1946)
• "The Scarred Hand" (Doc Savage, November 1946) (as John Farrell)
• "The Startled Face of Death" (Doc Savage, November 1946) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "The Whispering Knives" (The Shadow, November 1946)
• "Coward in the Game" (Short Stories, 25 November 1946)
• "Private War" (Doc Savage, December 1946)
• "You Got to Have a Good Lip" (Esquire, December 1946)
• "Redheads Won't Wait" (The Shadow, December 1946) (as Peter Reed)
• "I Ain't So Dumb" (The Shadow, December 1946) (as Robert Henry)
• "A Bat in the Hall" (The Shadow, December 1946)

1947

• "Muddy Gun" (Best Stories, January 1947)
• "The Hands of an Artist" (The Shadow, January 1947)
• "The Fixed Smile of Death" (The Shadow, January 1947) (as Robert Henry).
• "The Bright Flash of Vengeance" (The Shadow, January 1947) (as Peter Reed)
• "Eight Dozen Agents." (Doc Savage, January 1947)
• "Hole in None" (Liberty, 4 January 1947)
• "Dead to the World" (aka "No Business for an Amateur") (Dime Detective, February 1947)
• "Bonded in Death" (Doc Savage, February 1947) (as Harry Rieser)
• "The Deadly Game of Darts" (Doc Savage, February 1947)
• "The Anonymous Letter" (The Shadow, February-March 1947)
• "Backlash" (The Shadow, February-March 1947) (as Peter Reed)
• "Nor Iron Bars" (Doc Savage, March-April 1947)
• "You've Got to Be Cold" (The Shadow, April-May 1947)
• "The Notched Ears" (Best Stories, May 1947)
• "The Pay-Off" (Cosmopolitan, May 1947)
• "Suicidal Journey" (Dime Detective, June 1947)
• "Crooked Circle" (Fight Stories (?), after June 1947)
• "The Pendans Box" (Bluebook, July 1947)
• "They Let Me Live" (Doc Savage, July-August 1947)
• "To Cut the Cards" (Doc Savage, July-August 1947) (as Peter Reed)
• "North on the Parkway" (Esquire, August 1947)
• "Never Marry Murder" (The Shadow, August-September 1947) (as Peter Reed)
• "Manhattan Horse Opera" (aka "Heads I Win, Tails You Lose") (Black Mask, September 1947)
• "Design for Dying" (Dime Detective, September 1947)
• "The Chinese Pit" (Doc Savage, September-October 1947)
• "The Gentle Killer" (?, after September 1947)
• "Oh, Give Me a Hearse!" (Dime Detective, October 1947)
• "Begin Again" (Liberty, November 1947)
• "My Mission Is Murder" (Dime Detective, November 1947)
• "Or the World Will Die" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947)
• "Second Visitor" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947) (as Peter Reed)
• "Worse Than Murder" (Doc Savage, November-December 1947) (as Henry Rieser)
• "That Old Grey Train" (Super Sports, November? 1947)
• "What About Alice?" (The Sign, December 1947)
• "Big John Fights Again" (Super Sports, December 1947)
• "Punch Your Way Home" (Sports Fiction, December 1947?)

1948

• "Even Up the Odds" (Detective Story Magazine, January 1948)
• "Come Die with Me!" (New Detective, January 1948)
• "Cosmetics" (Astounding Science Fiction, February 1948)
• "The Pastel Production Line" (Bluebook, February 1948)
• "Pickup" (Cosmopolitan, February 1948)
• "High Walls of Hate" (Dime Detective, February 1948)
• "With Soul So Dead" (Dime Detective, March 1948)
• "One Vote for Murder" (New Detective, March 1948)
• "Her Black Wings" (Shock, March 1948)
• "High Dive to Oblivion" (Dime Detective, April 1948)
• "The Corpse Rides at Dawn" (Ten-Story Western, April 1948)
• "The Spiralled Myth" (Spectator Club, April 1948)
• "The Mechanical Answer" (Astounding Science Fiction, May 1948)
• "Death Sleeps Here!" (New Detective, May 1948)
• "Blood of the Vixen" (Shock, May 1948)
• "Satan's Angel" (Shock, May 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "The Cold Trail of Death" (Doc Savage, May-June 1948)
• "The Tin Suitcase" (Doc Savage, May-June 1948) (as Peter Reed)
• "Homicidal Hiccup" (Detective Tales, June 1948)
• "Call Your Murder Signals!" (Dime Detective, June 1948)
• "Venomous Lady" (Shock, July 1948)
• "Sepulchre of the Living"(Shock, July 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "So Sorry" (Sports Fiction, July 1948)
• "Cavaliers Make Good Corpses." (Dime Detective, August 1948)
• "Loser Take All" (Sports Novels, August 1948)
• "Fatal Accident" (The Shadow, Fall 1948)
• "The Case of the Carved Model" (Black Mask, September 1948)
• "Nicky and the Tin Finger" (Bluebook, September 1948)
• "Red-Headed Bait" (Detective Tales, September 1948)
• "Scene of the Crime" (Detective Tales, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Just a Kill in the Dark" (New Detective, September 1948)
• "Trial by Fury" (New Detective, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Tune in on Station Homicide" (New Detective, September 1948) (as Peter Reed)
• "Dance of a New World" (Astounding Science Fiction, September 1948)
• "Runaway Cleats" (Sports Novels, September 1948)
• "Thunder King" (Sports Novels, September 1948) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Shenadun" (Startling Stories, September 1948)
• "Deep Death" (Doc Savage, September-October 1948)
• "My Husband Dies Slowly" (Dime Detective, October 1948)
• "They Never Quit" (Sports Fiction, October 1948)
• "Death Is the Answer" (Thrilling Detective, October 1948)
• "That Mess Last Year" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1948)
• "School for the Stars" (Astounding Science Fiction, October 1948)
• "Blonde Bait for the Murder Master" (Crack Detective Stories, November 1948)
• "Glory Blaster" (Sports Novels, November 1948)
• "Ring Around the Redhead" (Startling Stories, November 1948)
• "No Grave Has My Love" (Dime Detective, December 1948)
• "Buzz-Saw Belter" (New Sports, December 1948)
• "A Child Is Crying" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, December 1948)
• "Successful Season" (?, 1948?)
• "When You Got a Pigeon" (The Shadow, December-January 1948-1949)

1949

• "Murder in Mind" (Mystery Book, Winter 1949)
• "Hot-Seat on the Aisle" (Detective Tales), January 1949)
• "Damsels of the Deep" (Dime Detective, January 1949)
• "Take the Bum Out!" (Fifteen Sports Stories, January 1949)
• "Three's a Shroud" (New Detective, January 1949)
• "Flaw" (Startling Stories, January 1949)
• "The Great Stone Death" (Weird Tales, January 1949)
• "Blackmail Breeds Bullets" (All-Story Detective, February 1949)
• "Killer's Nest" (Detective Tales, February 1949)
• "A Coffin a Day" (FBI Detective, February 1949)
• "Fight, Scrub, Fight!" (New Sports, February 1949)
• "Killing All Men!" (Black Mask, March 1949)
• "Kiss the Corpse Goodbye" (Black Mask, March 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "I'll Drown You in My Dreams" (Dime Detective, March 1949)
• "Danger -- Death Ahead!" (New Detective, March 1949)
• "Last Chance Cleats" (Sports Novels, March 1949)
• "A Corpse in His Dreams") (Mystery Book, Spring 1949)
• "The Widow Wouldn't Weep" (All-Story Detective, April 1949)
• "His Own Funeral" (Detective Tales, April 1949) (as John Lane)
• "The Corpse Belongs to Daddy" (Dime Detective, April 1949)
• "Loot for the Unlucky Lady" (FBI Detective, April 1949)
• "Death Quotient" (Super Science Stories, April 1949)
• "All Our Yesterdays" (Super Science Stories, April 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
• "Delusion Drive" (Super Science Stories, April 1949) (as Peter Reed)
• "Murder in One Syllable" (Black Mask, May 1949)
• "You'll Never Escape" (Dime Detective, May 1949)
• "Get Out of Town" (New Detective, May 1949)
• "Immortality" (Startling Stories, May 1949)
• "Somebody Has to Do the Job" (Toronto Star Weekly, 14 May 1949)
• "But Not to Dream" (Weird Tales, May 1949)
• "You Remember Jeanie" (Crack Detective Stories, May 1949)
• "Three Strikes -- You're Dead!" (All-Story Detective, June 1949)
• "Too Many Sinners" (Dime Detective, June 1949)
• "Make Mine Murder!" (FBI Detective, June 1949)
• "Like a Keepsake" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, June 1949)
• "Death Is a Lap Ahead" (Adventure, July 1949)
• "Tank-Town Matador" (Argosy, July 1949)
• "Heritage of Hate" (aka "Triple Cross") (Black Mask, July 1949)
• "Swing-Time Sucker" (Detective Tales, July 1949)
• "A Corpse-Maker Goes Courting" (Dime Detective, July 1949)
• "The Glory Punch" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949)
• "Bye, Bye, Backfield" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
• "The Thunder Road" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as Peter Reed)
• "Blue Water Fury" (Fifteen Sports Stories, July 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "The Cold, Cold Ground" (New Detective, July 1949)
• "The Hunted" (Super Science Stories, July 1949)
• "Bedside Murder" (Mystery Book, Summer 1949)
• "Trojan Horse Laugh" (Astounding Science Fiction, August 1949)
• "Looie Follows Me" (Collier's, 27 August 1949)
• "What Makes Sammy Laugh?" (Detective Tales, August 1949)
• "Amphiskios" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1949)
• "Poor Little Rich Corpse" (Detective Tales, September 1949)
• "Murder Run-Around" (Dime Detective, September 1949)
• "Mad About Murder" (Dime Detective, September 1949) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Six Points to Remember" (Fifteen Sports Stories, September 1949)
• "Dead -- As in Darling" (New Detective, September 1949)
• "A Condition of Beauty" (?, September 1949)
• "Minion of Chaos" (Super Science Stories, September 1949)
• "The Miniature" (Super Science Stories, September 1949) (as Peter Reed)
• "Blue Stars for a Dead Lady" (Detective Tales, October 1949)
• "Target for Tonight" (Dime Detective, October 1949)
• "Last Rendezvous" (Dime Mystery, October 1949)
• "Warrant for an Old Flame" (FBI Detective, October 1949)
• "A Young Man of Promise" (Argosy, November 1949)
• "The Durable Corpse" (Dime Detective, November 1949)
• "Run the Man Down" (Fifteen Sports Stories, November 1949)
• "Hang the Man High!" (Fifteen Western Tales, November 1949)
• "Half Past Mayhem" (New Detective, November 1949)
• "Appointment for Tomorrow" (Super Science Stories, November 1949)
• "The Sleepers" (Super Science Stories, November 1949) (as John Wade Farrell)
• "Love, Inc." (Today's Woman, November 1949)
• "Case of the Burning Blonde" (Detective Tales, December 1949)
• "Take a Powder, Galahad!" (Dime Detective, December 1949)
• "Nine Coffins for Rocking H" (Dime Western, December 1949)

1950

• "Moonlit Sport" (The American Magazine, January 1950)
• "Swing and Slay" (Dime Detective, January 1950)
• "Stand Up and Slug!" (Fifteen Sports Stories, January 1950)
• "Stop, Look -- and Die!" (New Detective, January 1950)
• "The First One" (Startling Stories, January 1950)
• "Spin, Devil!" (Super Science Stories, January 1950) (as John Wade Farrell)
• "Spectator Sport" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, February 1950)
• "The Filly from Philly" (Toronto Star Weekly, 25 February 1950)
• "Man-Stalk" (Argosy, March 1950)
• "The Judas Chick" (Detective Tales, March 1950)
• "A Corpse on Me!" (Dime Detective, March 1950)
• "Fall Guy" (New Detective, March 1950)
• "The Ultimate One" (Super Science Stories, March 1950)
• "The Sitting Duck" (Detective Tales, April 1950)
• "Blood on the Midway" (Dime Detective, April 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Pigskin Patsy" (Fifteen-Story Detective, April 1950)
• "The Plunder Five" (New Sports, April 1950)
• "Journey for Seven" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, April 1950)
• "Portrait of a Murderess" (Detective Book Magazine, Spring 1950)
• "Breathe No More, My Lovely!" (Detective Tales, May 1950)
• "The Long, Red Night" (Detective Tales, May 1950) (as John Lane)
• "Night Watch" (Detective Tales, May 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Yes, Sir, That's My Slay-Babe!" (Dime Detective, May 1950)
• "Vanguard of the Lost" (Fantastic Adventures, May 1950)
• "Money Green" (Fifteen Sports Stories, May 1950)
• "This One Will Kill You" (New Detective, May 1950)
• "Wine of the Dreamers" (Startling Stories, May 1950)
• "By the Stars Forgot" (Super Science Stories, May 1950)
• "Gift of Darkness" (Super Science Stories, May 1950) (as Peter Reed)
• "College-Cut Kill" (Dime Detective, June 1950)
• "Sir Lancelot's Crime Wave" (Dime Detective, June 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Dead on the Pin" (Mystery Book, Summer 1950)
• "Jukebox Jungle" (Black Mask, July 1950)
• "Run, Sister, Run!" (Detective Tales, July 1950)
• "Dead Men Don't Scare" (Dime Detective, July 1950)
• "Five-Star Fugitive" (Dime Detective, July 1950) (as Scott O'Hara)
• "Half-Past Eternity" (Super Science Stories, July 1950)
• "Escape to Fear" (Super Science Stories, July 1950) (as Peter Reed)
• "Make One False Move" (Argosy, August 1950)
• "His Fatal Fling" (Dime Detective, August 1950)
• "The Lady Is a Corpse!" (Detective Tales, September 1950)
• "Exit Smiling" (Dime Detective, September 1950)
• "The Homesick Buick" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1950)
• "Too Early to Tell" (Adventure, October 1950)
• "Miranda" (Fifteen Mystery Stories, October 1950)
• "Shadow on the Sand" (Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1950)
• "The Paw of the Cat" (Detective Tales, November 1950)
• "Tri-Kill Cutie" (Dime Detective, November 1950)
• "For Murder -- or Worse" (New Detective, November 1950)
• "Final Mission" (Planet Stories, November 1950)
• "The Big Contest" (Worlds Beyond, December 1950)
• "I Love You (Occasionally)" (This Week, 31 December 1950)

1951

• "Death for the Asking (Detective Fiction, January 1951)
• "Susceptibility" (Galaxy Science Fiction, January 1951)
• "Hand from the Void" (Super Science Stories, January 1951)
• "Destiny Deferred" (Super Science Stories, January 1951(as John Wade Farrell)
• "Over My Dead Body!" (Detective Tales, February 1951)
• "The Curse of the `Star'" (Short Stories, February 1951)
• "Get Thee Behind Me" (Detective Fiction, March 1951)
• "Case of Nerves" (Detective Tales, March 1951)
• "The Deadliest Game" (Detective Tales, April 1951)
• "Death Is My Comrade" (New Detective, April 1951)
• "Salute to Courage" (Fifteen Sports Stories, April 1951)
• "Violence Inherited" (Detective Fiction, May 1951)
• "Nothing Must Change" (Redbook, June 1951)
• "Escape to Chaos" (Super Science Stories, June 1951)
• "Cosmic Knot" (Super Science Stories, June 1951) (as Peter Reed)
• "Path of Glory" (Adventure, July 1951)
• "Lay Me Down and Die" (Detective Fiction, July 1951)
• "Common Denominator" (Galaxy Science Fiction, July 1951)
• "Crime of Omission" (Detective Tales, August 1951)
• "Death Runs in the Family" (Dime Detective, August 1951)
• "Dateline -- Death" (New Detective, August 1951)
• "Who Stopped That Clock?" (This Week, 12 August 1951)
• "The White Fruit of Banaldar" (Startling Stories, September 1951)
• "Big League Busher" (Sport Magazine (?), after September 1951)
• "Case of the Gorgeous Gams" (Detective Tales, October 1951)
• "The Cloob from Glasgow" (Fifteen Sports Stories, October 1951)
• "The Cardboard Star" (The American Legion Magazine, December 1951)
• "The Girl Who Wanted Money" (Dime Detective, December 1951)
• "The Man Who Died" (Toronto Star Weekly, 15 December 1951)

1952

• "Very Junior Miss" (McCall's, January 1952)
• "Mr. Killer" (Today's Woman, January 1952)
• "Hell's Belter" (Fifteen Sports Stories, February 1952)
• "There Comes a Time" (Redbook, February 1952)
• "The Feather Wrench" (Toronto Star Weekly, 2 February 1952)
• "Betrayed" (The American Magazine, March 1952)
• "All That Blood Money Can Buy" (Detective Tales, April 1952)
• "The Man from Limbo" (Dime Detective, March 1952; Detective Story Magazine, April 1952)
• "My Brother's Widow" (Collier's, 15 March 1952 to 12 April 1952)
• "Refund for Murder" (Cosmopolitan, May 1952)
• "Delivery Boy War" (Bluebook, August 1952)
• "Who's the Blonde?" (Collier's, 9 August 1952)
• "Noose for a Tigress" (Dime Detective, August 1952)
• "Hit and Run" (Good Housekeeping, August 1952)
• "The Clay Pigeon Shoots Back!" (New Detective, August 1952)
• "Elimination Race" (Collier's, 13 September 1952)
• "Game for Blondes" (Galaxy Science Fiction, October 1952)
• "The Doll" (Cosmopolitan, November 1952)
• "Double Harness" (Detective Story Magazine, November 1952)
• "Identification" ("Author's Guild Bulletin," after November 1952)
• "Incubation" (In Future Tense, New York: Greenberg Publishers, December 1952)
• "He Knew a Broadway Star" (This Week, 14 December 1952)
• "Dead on Christmas Street" (Collier's, 20 December 1952)
• "A Good Judge of Men" (Argosy, ? 1952)

1953

• "A Day in the Sun" (Bluebook, February 1953)
• "Forever Yours" (McCall's, February 1953)
• "Death's Eye View" (New Detective, February 1953)
• "The Fourteenth of February" (?, February 1953)
• "What Are the Symptoms, Dear?" (This Week, 22 February 1953)
• "The Second Chance" (Bluebook, March 1953)
• "Dead Reckoning" (Detective Story Magazine, March 1953)
• "Suspicion Island" (Cosmopolitan, May 1953)
• "Labor Supply" (Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1953)
• "A Matter of Life and Death" (This Week, 14 June 1953)
• "Finders Killers" (Detective Story Magazine, July 1953)
• "He's Not Talking to Me" (?, July 1953)
• "The Trouble with Erica" (Cosmopolitan, September 1953)
• "The Innocent Victims" (Bluebook, November 1953)
• "Night Fright" (Cosmopolitan, November 1953)

1954

• "Six Golden Pennies" (Cosmopolitan, February 1954)
• "Flight of the Tiger" (Collier's, 5 March 1954 - 2 April 1954)
• "She Tried to Make Her Man Behave" (This Week, 7 March 1954)
• "The Big Gun" (Bluebook, May 1954)
• "The Man Who Almost Blew His Top" (This Week, 30 May 1954)
• "Built for Speed" (Argosy, June 1954)
• "First Offense" (Cosmopolitan, August 1954)
• "The Man Without a Home" (This Week, 22 August 1954)
• "I Always Get the Cuties" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, November 1954)

1955

• "The Killer" (Manhunt, January 1955)
• "There Hangs Death" (This Week, 20 February 1955)
• "Tournament" (Bluebook, April 1955)
• "Deadly Victim" (Cosmopolitan, April 1955)
• "The Bear Trap" (Cosmopolitan, May 1955)
• "Virus H" (Bluebook, June 1955)
• "The Impulse" (Cosmopolitan, June 1955)
• "In a Small Motel" (Justice, July 1955)
• "Too Young to Marry" (This Week, 25 September 1955)
• "Long Shot" (Argosy, October 1955)
• "Scared Money" (Justice, October 1955)
• "Man on a High Ledge" (Bluebook, November 1955)

1956

• "Jail Bait" (Argosy, January 1956)
• "April Evil" (Cosmopolitan, January 1956)
• "The Unsuitable Girl" (Collier's, February 1956)
• "The Magic Valentines" (This Week, 5 February 1956)
• "Enough to Cure the Blues" (Bluebook, March 1956)
• "Don't Get Carried Away" (Toronto Star Weekly, 24 March 1956)
• "The Fraud That Paid Off" (This Week, 22 April 1956)
• "Squealer" (Manhunt, May 1956)
• "The Men Women Marry (Collier's, June 1956)
• "Linda" (In Border Town Girl, Popular Library, June 1956)
• "Hangover" (Cosmopolitan, July 1956)
• "Hurricane" (Redbook, August 1956)
• "A Criminal Mind" (Cosmopolitan, November 1956)
• "Open Before Christmas" (Woman's Home Companion, December 1956)
• "Death of a Dealer" (This Week, ? 1956)

1957

• "The End of Her Life" (Cosmopolitan, January 1957)
• "The Rabbit Gets a Gun" (Manhunt, January 1957)
• "The Bullets Lied" (This Week, 6 January 1957)
• "The Heat of Money" (Cosmopolitan, April 1957)
• "The Giant Who Came to Our House" (This Week, 5 May 1957)
• "A Romantic Courtesy" (Cosmopolitan, July 1957)
• "The Executioners" (Ladies Home Journal, October 1957 - November 1957)

1958

• "College Man" (Cosmopolitan, February 1958)
• "Black Cat in the Snow" (Manhunt, February 1958)
• "Taint of the Tiger" (Cosmopolitan, March 1958)
• "The Faithless" (Redbook, May 1958)
• "The Knife, the Chain, and the Schoolyard" (Ladies Home Journal, May 1958)
• "Man in a Trap" (This Week, 15 June 1958)
• "The Fast Loose Money" (Cosmopolitan, July 1958)

1959

• "Ultimate Surprise" (Cosmopolitan, January 1959)
• "Crossroads" (Cosmopolitan, June 1959)
• "Honeymoon in the Off Season" (Redbook, September 1959)

1960+

• "That Strangest Month of All" (Family Circle, October 1959)
• "The Tug of Evil" (Cosmopolitan, January 1960)
• "The Trap of Solid Gold" (Ladies Home Journal, April 1960)
• "End of the Night" (Cosmopolitan, May 1960)
• "Where Is Janice Gantry?" (Cosmopolitan, December 1960)
• "The Underwater Safari" (Bluebook, ? 1960)
• "Travel Light and Travel Far" (Cosmopolitan, January 1961)
• "Kitten on a Trampoline" (The Saturday Evening Post, 8 April 1961)
• "A Young Man's Game" (Argosy, May 1961)
• "Saturday's Child" (McCall's, May 1961)
• "Double, Double" (Golf, June 1961)
• "The Tempestuous Career of Molly Murdock" (McCall's, July 1961)
• "Sing a Song of Terror" (The Saturday Evening Post, 9 September 1961)
• "Hit and Run" (The Saturday Evening Post, 16 September 1961)
• "One Monday We Killed Them All" (Cosmopolitan, November 1961)
• "An Island of Her Own" (Redbook, February 1962)
• "Where the Body Lies" (Cosmopolitan, August 1962)
• "The Widow's Estate" (Good Housekeeping, October 1962)
• "The Drowner" (Cosmopolitan, January 1963)
• "The Obvious Woman" (The Saturday Evening Post, 30 March 1963)
• "Funny the Way Things Work Out" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1963)
• "End of the Tiger" (This Week, 20 October 1963)
• "The Straw Witch" (This Week, 12 January 1964)
• "Blurred View" (This Week, 23 February 1964)
• "The Loveliest Girl in the World" (This Week, 15 March 1964)
• "Wild, Wonderful Old Man" (This Week, 29 March 1964)
• "The Night Jamie Grew Up" (This Week, 24 May 1964)
• "A Touch of Miss Mint" (This Week, 19 July 1964)
• "A Matter of Trust" (Redbook, August 1964)
• "The White Lie" (This Week, 2 August 1964)
• "Eyewitness" (Argosy, September 1964)
• "Cop Probe" (Argosy, October 1964)
• "The Legend of Joe Lee" (Cosmopolitan, October 1964)
• "Bright Orange Shroud"* (Cosmopolitan, April 1965)
• "Taste for Mischief" (This Week, 20 June 1965)
• "Child Wife" (This Week, 29 August 1965)
• "The Girl in the Yellow Suit" (This Week, 19 December 1965)
• "Darker Than Amber"* (Cosmopolitan, April 1966)
• "Funny Man" (The Saturday Evening Post, 21 May 1966)
• "The Quickest Way Home" (This Week, 19 June 1966)
• "Triangle" (Cavalier, September 1966)
• "One Fearful Yellow Eye"* (Cosmopolitan, November 1966)
• "Quarrel" (Playboy, May 1967)
• "The Last One Left" (Argosy, July 1967)
• "The Annex" (Playboy, May 1968)
• "The Reference Room" (In With Malice Toward All, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1968)
• "Dear Old Friend" (Playboy, April 1970)
• "Double Hannenframmis" (Playboy, August 1970)
• "Parody of Spillane" (The JDM Bibliophile, August 1970)
• "He Was Always a Nice Boy" (Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1971)
• "The Random Noise of Love" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
• "The Willow Pool" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
• "Woodchuck" (In S*E*V*E*N, Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1971)
• "The Turquoise Lament"* (Cosmopolitan, March 1974)
• "The Taste of Gravy" (Playboy, June 1974)
• "The Dreadful Lemon Sky"* (Cosmopolitan, September 1975)
• "Finding Anne Farley" (aka "Ring My Love with Diamonds") (Various Field Syndicate newspapers beginning 22 May 1977)
• "Wedding Present" (Antaeus, Spring/Summer 1977)
• "A Terminal Case"* (New York, 3 October 1977)
• "Condominium" (Book Digest, November 1977)
• "Friend of the Family" (Various Field Syndicate newspapers beginning 24 September 1978.
• "The Accomplice" (In Who Done It?, Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, Spring 1980)
• "J. R. Eats Humble Pie" (Panorama, September 1980)
• "The Lad Is Not for Burning" (In Bred Any Good Rooks Lately?, Doubleday 1986.

References

• Campbell, Frank D. John D. MacDonald and the Colorful World of Travis McGee (San Bernardino: Borgo Press, 1977)
• Geherin, David. John D. MacDonald (New York: Ungar, 1982)
• Hirshberg, Edgar W. John D. MacDonald (Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1985)
• Merrill, Hugh. The Red Hot Typewriter: The Life and Times of John D. MacDonald (St. Martin's: 2000).
• Shine, Jean and Walter. A Bibliography of the Published Works of John D. MacDonald (Gainesville: University of Florida Libraries, 1980)
• Manuscript collection at the University of Florida, Gainesville

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