Lost, stuck, becalmed or otherwise in need of rescue, they sent for Mcdonald, who sailed the boats home. The younger Mcdonald earned a bachelor”s degree from Harvard in 1958.Īn accomplished sailor, Mcdonald supported himself at Harvard, and for several years afterward, by running what he euphemistically called an “international yacht troubleshooting business.” His clients were tycoons who bought yachts but could not sail them. Gregory Burke Christopher Mcdonald was born on Feb. Among Mcdonald”s other awards was his personal favorite, “Best Foreign Author - Not Yet Dead,” from the Moscow Literary Review in 1992. Two - “Fletch” and “Confess, Fletch” - won Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. The Fletch novels have sold tens of millions of copies, Mcdonald”s manager, David List, said Thursday. He was, in short, the perfect hero for the countercultural ”70s, and the public ate him up. He was a cad, a deadbeat (unpaid alimony), an opportunist and a sometime accumulator of vast ill-gotten wealth.
He was a slob whose sartorial taste ran to T-shirts and jeans. A Southern California newspaperman turned beach bum, he flouted authority wherever he found it. Irwin Maurice Fletcher was young, cocky and smart but no white knight. The Fletch novels, nine in all, were praised by critics for their sharp, sardonic dialogue and mordant social commentary. The cause was prostate cancer, said his wife, Cheryle Mcdonald.Ī former reporter and editor for The Boston Globe, Mcdonald was considered a master of the comic-mystery genre. Fletcher, breezily known as Fletch, have sold millions of copies and inspired two Hollywood films, died on Sunday at his home in Pulaski, Tenn. Gregory Mcdonald, an Edgar Award-winning crime writer whose acidly funny novels starring the subversive sleuth I.M.
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