![]() Mcdonald is in town as the guest of a gathering of mystery writers and fans called Bouchercon XI, the convention named for the late Anthony Boucher, novelist and critic. If Fletch hasn't yet left Mcdonald with $3 million in a Boston suburb, he does "put the ketchup on the table." ![]() He says he's leery of what Hollywood might do to his books. And Mcdonald seems to be holding up well: Seven publishers bid in six figures for two new Fletch books at an auction last month recently, Mcdonald says, he has turned down three of four movie offers each week. It was a nice problem for an author to have had. If I had known, I wouldn't have left Fletch with $3 million in Rio." ![]() "I had no idea it was going to turn into a series when I wrote the first book. "I do have a problem with Fletch," Mcdonald admits. Throughout three Mcdonald adventures, Fletch remains the same thoroughly engaging 30-year-old maverick reporter - cocky, irreverent, an untamed free spirit. ![]() Like so many readers, Gregory Mcdonald is finding Fletch, his breezy, hang-loose hero of books that have won two Edgar mystery awards, to be quite irrepressible. ![]()
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