The Brass Cupcake
Author's debut novel, first published in 1950 as a Gold Medal paperback original and later in hardcover in England in 1974, features Cliff Bartells, ex-cop now an insurance investigator, hunting the thieves who stole $750,000 in jewelry and murdered a woman to do it. Set against the seedy, sensual backdrop of a Florida Beach Town.
John D. MacDonald
John D. MacDonald is the author of 21 Travis McGee thrillers, Cape Fear, and countless other novels and short stories. His works have been translated into numerous languages, with his sales in the tens of millions. Named the grandmaster of the Mystery Writers of America, he also won the American Book Award (now known as the National Book Award) in 1980, earned an MBA, and served in the army. MacDonald, a native of New York, lived much of his life in McGee's homestate of Florida with his wife and son, before passing away in 1986.
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