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Mcdonald, Gregory Christopher was born on February 15, 1937 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Irving Thomas and Mae (Haggerty) M.
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A rogue and a rascal--the trumpet playing, lady-killing toast of Greendowns County, Tennessee--Skylar Whitfields talented lips have won him the affection of many a local belle. Now theyve won him a scholarship to a prestigious Northern music school--which is what brings young Skylar into the home of his snooty Boston Brahmin relatives, where he is decidedly not welcome. Perhaps their disdain has something to do with the disappearance of five million dollar-worth of family gembobs on the very night he arrives. Or his amorous effect on some of the Beantown females, whose explicit fantasies could have dire consequences for the visiting country cousin. And of course, theres the murder that Skylar seems involved in up to his Dixie neck. . .
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On medical leave from the Boston Police Department, the eccentric Police Inspector and offbeat operative, Francis Xavier Flynn might have his most perplexing assignment yet. Someone is giving away hundreds of millions of dollars, and Flynn has to find out who in a hurry. As he races from Texas to Las Vegas, from Massachusetts to Russia, Flynn quickly discovers that this is not the pastime of an eccentric billionaire, nor is it a nefarious counterfeiting scheme. Someone is looking to wreck the nation’s economy and bizarrely enough, spending a lot of money to do it. With every lead going nowhere, Flynn’s most dizzying logic is put to the test, but the clue he needs could be somewhere in his own murky past.
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A Very Good copy of a collection written by someone described as "...one of the best writers we have--to the point and always original."--The New York Times Book Review."Cover design by Barbara Buck has a collage of five photographs. Very slight shelf wear to this unread copy. Faint scratching to both covers. No wrinkle down the spine. Bottom corner of front cover and top corner of back cover are slightly bent. 234 pages. Text is clean with no markings. Between pages 122 & 123, there are 16 pages of photographs including one of the author during this time. Subtitle:"Writings about America: 1966-1973: Sketches from the Sixties." From verso:"A selection of articles previously published in the Boston Globe." Contents:"Introduction; Souvenirs of a Blown World; Pacem in Terris; Jack Kerouac; Claude Smith; John Wayne; The Car; The Seeds of Revolution; Dolls; Did Andy Warhol Spoil Success for Rock Hunter?; Hugh MacDiarmid; The Word That Makes Flesh; Joan Baez; Solstice; Donovan; Rules; The Trouble with Harry; Youngbodies; James Groppi; Traveling with Susi; Krishnamurti; Three Ladies of the Theater: Swanson, Stapleton, Grenfell; Phil Ochs; The Opiate of the People; L. Frances Herreshoff; The American Dream, Rolling in Bread; Louise Nevelson; Yippie; The Absolute End; Epilogue: The Education of Gregory McDonald."From back cover:"We called the era "the sixties" and it marked us forever. Now bestselling novelist Gregory McDonald, a writer and critic-at-large for The Boston Globe from 1966 to 1973...presents his Globe articles that best represent those amazing times. In both firsthand accounts of events and interviews with Joan Baez, Abbie Hoffman, Krishnamurti, Phil Ochs, Andy Warhol, and others, he brings back the anger, the exuberance, and the glorious madness of those indelible years."
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When Boston Police Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn’s barely adolescent daughter asks him to rescue her friend Billy from the cemetery, where he’s been fastened to a tree by a nail through his earlobe, the good inspector is pretty sure there’s something more behind what at first seems like a bully’s prank. And he’s convinced there is more than mischief involved in the hateful threats against distinguished Harvard professor Louis Loveson. If that weren’t enough to keep Flynn busy, there’s Lieutenant John Kurt, whose very impressive arrest record follows some very disturbing patterns. In Flynn’s World, two-time Edgar Award-winner Gregory Mcdonald’s dogged detective confronts intolerance in all its guises, and sheds light on more than one dark secret. F.X. Flynn made his first appearance in Confess, Fletch, where he matched wits with the inimitable Irwin Fletcher. Since then he has befuddled, bemused, amazed, and infuriated his colleagues on the Boston Police force as he has pursued international terrorists, blackmailers, murderers, embezzlers, politicians, and, occasionally, his fellow policemen—all while doing his regular job.
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Mcdonald, Gregory Christopher was born on February 15, 1937 in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, United States. Son of Irving Thomas and Mae (Haggerty) M.
He was educated at Harvard, paying his own way by operating yachts, and worked as a teacher before becoming a journalist for the Boston Globe in the late 1960s.
The original book became a 1985 movie of the same name starring Chevy Chase. He finally left his newspaper position to become a novelist full-time with the publication of Fletch. In the mid-1980s, he moved to Pulaski, a city in Giles County, Tennessee.
There, he bought an antebellum farm and became involved in local politics.
He died at his home from prostate cancer in 2008. In 1985, the first novel in the Fletch series was adapted into a movie with Chevy Chase playing the irreverent investigative reporter.
Chase would reprise his role in the 1989 sequel Fletch Lives. Though Mcdonald had never really seen Chevy Chase perform in anything substantial, he readily agreed to the casting of the actor in the role, and had nothing but praise for his performance.
In Confess, Fletch, Mcdonald also introduced his second signature protagonist, Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn, a brilliant but eccentric Boston Police homicide detective who served as a foil for Fletch.
Flynn would go on to appear in four of his own spin-off novels. The Fletch series also spawned the Son of Fletch series, in which Mcdonald introduced the character of Jack Faoni, the illegitimate son of Irwin Maurice Fletcher. In addition, Mcdonald wrote two novels in the Skylar series, and a number of non-series (and non-mystery) novels.
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Member visiting committee Boston Museum Fine Arts, 1970-1973, 85-. Member Lincoln Recreation Committee, 1977, 78. Member Winthrop House Senior Commons Harvard College since 1982.
Member Authors Guild, Dramatists Guild, Mystery Writers American (director since 1977, president 1985-1986, Poe award 1975, 77), Crime Writers England, Writers Guild American, Massachusetts Chiefs Police Association, Giles Countians United, Mid-Tennessee Harvard-Radcliffe Association.
Married Susan Aiken, January 12, 1963 (divorced October 1990). Children: Christopher Gregory, Douglas Gregory. Married Cheryle Higgins, May 25, 2001.