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In A Tan and Sandy Silence, Harry Broll surfaces from McGee's past, accusing him of running away with the current Mrs. Broll, a woman named Mary. Although close to Mary in the past, McGee hasn't a clue as to where she has vanished, but sets out on the complicated trail to find her. The Past comes back to haunt McGee again in the Dreadful Lemon Sky when Carrie Milligan arrives at 3 A.M. with $104,200 in cash. Because McGee is the only man she trusts, Carrie asks him to hold the money, and McGee agrees for "old times' sake." But two weeks later Carrie is killed in an accident, and McGee is convinced it's murder. All he has to do is find a motive--and the murderer. When Hub Lawless falls overboard off the Florida coast, it looks like a simple case of drowning in The Empty Copper Sea; however, the skipper isn't so sure, Lawless's insurance company has two million dollar' worth of doubts, and McGee smells a skillful scam. Unraveling the truth of the not-so-empty sea provides McGee with almost more adventure than he can handle. McGee's world of surf, sand, and sun is cruelly shattered in The Green Ripper. Gretel, the woman McGee loves, is casually murdered, and as he investigates the cold and impersonal death, McGee uncovers the horrific activities and plans of a fanatic religious cult called the Church of the Apocrypha. The events in the Green Ripper, the most savage and suspenseful in his Career, leave Travis McGee a changed man. When tycoon Ellis Esterland is killed at a rest stop on the Florida Turnpike, the question of who will inherit his money causes a chain of deaths across the country. McGee steps in to straighten out the tangle in Free Fall in Crimson, traveling to Beverly Hills, where he enlists the aid of "the queen of TV games show," back to the Florida boondocks and an unexpected partnership in a motorcycle business, and finally to Rosedale Station, Iowa, where the filming of a movie on hot-air ballooning provides surprising answers to McGee's questions.