Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (USA 2018)

From the Publisher:
Book one in the bestselling mystery series that brought to life an iconic literary antihero of subversion and schemes
Fletch, investigative reporter extraordinaire, can't be bothered with deadlines or expense-account budgets when it comes to getting his story.

Working undercover at the beach to dig up a drug-trafficking scheme for his next blockbuster piece, Fletch is invited into a much deeper narrative. Alan Stanwyk, CEO of Collins Aviation and all-around family man, mistakes the reporter for a strung-out vagabond and asks him for a favor: kill him and escape to Brazil with $50,000. Intrigued, Fletch can't help but dig into this suspicious deal he's being offered.

Dodging the shady beach police as his case begins to break open, and with his temperamental editor Clara pushing for his article, he soon discovers that Stanwyk has a lot to hide and this plan is anything but what it seems.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. Vintage Books, ISBN: 9781538541920 (August, 2018), 248 p., $15.99.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (USA 2002)

From the Publisher:
Fletch
He's an investigative reporter whose methods are a little unorthodox. Currently he's living on the beach with the strung-out trying to find to the source of the drugs they live for.

Fletch
He's taking more than a little flack from his editor. She doesn't appreciate his style. Or the expense account items he's racking up. Or his definition of the word deadline. Or the divorce lawyers who keep showing up at the office.

Fletch
So when multimillionaire Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch the job of a lifetime, which could be worth a fortune, he's intrigued and decides to do a little investigation. What he discovers is that the proposition is anything but what it seems.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. Vintage Books, ISBN: 0375713549 (March, 2002), 197 p., $13.95.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (USA ca. 1985)

From the Publisher:
WHO IS FLETCH?
His two ex-wives say Fletch is a four-letter word.
His editor says Fletch is an s.o.b.
His readers say Fletch is the best damn investigative reporter in California.
Fletch says they can all Fletch-off. Because when he's after a story he plays by nobody's rules but his own. And right now Fletch is on a roll. He's risking his neck to bust a major drug dealer. He's watching a pretty blonde teenager turn to hustling and shooting heroin -- and maybe die before she grows up. Plus, he has a multimillionaire mistaking him for a beach bum. It may be a fatal mistake... because the rich man just made Fletch an offer.

He asked Fletch to commit murder.
Fletch's answer is "Sure."
GREGORY MCDONALD
Two-Time Edgar Award Winner for Best Mystery
-- Author of --
FLETCH'S FORTUNE and CONFESS, FLETCH

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. Movie Tie-In. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380006456 (19th printing, no date given / ca. 1985), 253 p., $3.50.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (USA 1976)

From the Publisher:
"What's your name?"
"Fletch."
"What's your full name?"
"Fletcher."
"What's your first name?"
"Irwin. Irwin Fletcher. People call me Fletch."
"Irwin Fletcher, I have a proposition to make to you. I will give you a thousand dollars for just listening to it. If you decide to reject the proposition, you take the thousand dollars, go away, and never tell anyone we talked. Fair enough?"
"Is it criminal? I mean, what you want me to do?"
"Of course."
"Fair enough. For a thousand bucks I can listen. What do you want me to do?"
"I want you to murder me."...
Fletch said, "Sure."

FLETCH
Irwin Fletcher. A down-and-out beach bum among the drug-ridden human wreckage on a sunny California beach. Except that Fletch is a crack undercover reporter hot on the trail of the most sensational story of his career.

FLETCH
Until millionaire industrialist Alan Stanwyk makes him an offer his reporter's instincts won't let him turn down: commit a murder, collect a safe full of cash, board a plane to Buenos Aires, and live like a king on a dead man's money.

FLETCH
The catch: the victim is Stanwyk himself. And Fletch has just seven days to find out why a guy who has everything wants to throw it all away. Day by day, minute by minute, FLETCH races across a sprawling canvas of California-style decadence and electrifying human intrigue, toward a stunning unguessable climax.

"FLETCH
is nerve-shattering... a winner! Do read it!" Minneapolis Tribune
"A top-rate thriller!" Washington Post

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. Avon Books, ISBN: 0380006456 (March, 1976), 253 p., $1.75.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch (USA 1974)

From the Publisher:
FLETCH
A wealthy California industrialist, Alan Stanwyk, sizes up a beach bum, one I. M. Fletcher, and offers him a bundle of money to kill someone.

The "beach bum" is a San Francisco journalist on an undercover assignment. His journalistic curiosity and instincts lead him to accept the offer. He is even more intrigued when Stanwyk tells him who the victim is to be: Stanwyk himself. With a week to go before he commits the "murder," Fletch ferrets out an amazing amount of detail about his "victim."

Alan Stanwyk is married to a beautiful socialite who is wealthy in her own right. He has a charming young daughter. He has doting parents. A brilliant career. Looks, personality, brains. He has everything going for him.

Why does he want to die?
As Fletch digs even deeper, a pattern begins to emerge, and he discovers that Alan Stanwyk is more than he appears to be: he is a mass of contradictions and a very desperate man indeed.

This is an intriguing novel of suspense about a double-cross -- and a stunning triple-cross to top it.

Gregory Mcdonald: Fletch. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1974, ISBN: 0672520206, 197 p., $13.95.