John D. MacDonald and King Saul

We worked John D. MacDonald’s private eye, Travis McGee, into this discussion of King Saul and the young David:  Spare the King and Seize the Spareribs.  I most recently read The Quick Red Fox, which I was thinking about for the Saul and David post.

MacDonald had fine PI prose:

“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge” (Darker Than Amber (1966)).