A Deadly Shade of Gold (1965) is the fifth novel in the Travis McGee series by John D. MacDonald.
The plot revolves around a solid gold Aztec statuette, and takes McGee from his home of Florida to Mexico and Los Angeles.
The cover bills this novel as a "double-length adventure" and is about twice as many pages as the previous Travis McGee novels.
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