Nightmare in Pink is the second novel in the Travis McGee series written by John D. MacDonald.

[1] In Nightmare in Pink, McGee is asked by a friend from his military days to help his sister Nina in the investigation of her fiancé's death and the large sum of money involved.

The book's title is a reference to the inclusion of hallucinogenic drugs as a plot device in the climax.

Nina's fiancé, Howard Plummer, has died and with a fair amount of money.

The book runs fourteen chapters and does not mention the phrase, "Nightmare in Pink," although that phrase refers to McGee's experience on the hallucinatory drugs that he is given while inside a mental institution trying to foil the plot.