Halpern was gone by the time he’d finished dressing. The sun was nearly down as he drove home. Now it was all over, the last loose end snipped off. He drove slowly home to Huntington Drive and he looked at the Mather house as he drove in.
Joan met him at the door. The screen door hissed shut behind them as they walked arm in arm into the house.
About the Author
John D. MacDonald was an American novelist and short story writer. His works include the Travis McGee series and the novel The Executioners, which was adapted into the film Cape Fear. In 1962 MacDonald was named a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America; in 1980 he won a National Book Award. In print he delighted in smashing the bad guys, deflating the pompous, and exposing the venal. In life he was a truly empathetic man; his friends, family, and colleagues found him to be loyal, generous, and practical. In business he was fastidiously ethical. About being a writer, he once expressed with gleeful astonishment, “They pay me to do this! They don’t realize, I would pay them.” He spent the later part of his life in Florida with his wife and son. He died in 1986.
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