The Quick Red Fox
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 First edition cover | |
| Author | John D. MacDonald |
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| Language | English |
| Series | Travis McGee |
| Genre | Mystery |
| Publisher | Fawcett Publications |
Publication date | September 29, 1964[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (paperback) |
| Pages | 160 |
| Preceded by | A Purple Place for Dying |
| Followed by | A Deadly Shade of Gold |
The Quick Red Fox (1964) is the fourth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald. In it, McGee is hired to aid a fictitious Hollywood star named Lysa Dean who is being blackmailed with revealing photographs.
The New York Times called it "fast moving, hard hitting."[2]
It was issued in hardback in 1974.[3]
The back of the book reads, "From all that Travis McGee could gather, it must have been one hell of a party. Four languid days and all the booze they could drink...Ten playful people swinging wild and free, getting drunk, getting bored, swapping partners in the warmth of sun on naked bodies, miles from civilization. --- Miles from civilization - and 300 feet from a very good camera with a telephoto lens. The star attraction was a woman named Lysa Dean. --- It was a blackmail set-up as old as the hills. McGee - waterfront gypsy - did not want to touch the deal with a ten-foot pole. Except there was another woman involved, a lovely, longing, tender woman whose life was slowly draining away into disaster..."
