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Word: fletch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1984-1984
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...inventor of Travis McGee. Why three unrelated Americans with, more or less, the same Scottish clan name should have written some of the best detective stories of the past couple of decades is, appropriately enough, a mystery. But Gregory Mcdonald is appealingly fresh and impudent in his tales of Fletch, the irreverent reporter, and Flynn, the Boston supercop. The civilized and resourceful Inspector Francis Xavier Flynn is on duty here, spying out malefaction at something called the Rod and Gun Club, a secretive woodsy preserve for male members of the Eastern ruling class...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Reading | 7/9/1984 | See Source »

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