![]() ![]() A delectable combination of high society and high jinks, and featuring some of the most eccentric characters ever to populate Florida's Gold Coast, McNally's Dilemma is as witty and charming as Archy McNally himself. Someone's lying, and the one person who knows the truth-Geoff's perky playmate-got away. And when her story doesn't match Melva's, which doesn't match Geoff's, Archy realizes he does indeed have a dilemma on his hands. ![]() But Veronica is no damsel in distress, and she's certainly not sorry her stepfather is in the grave. Rumors fly, and some of them may be true. Gallant Archy takes the case-and escorts grown-up and gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse. It sounds like an open-and-shut case for McNally & Son's Department of Discreet Inquiries, until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter, Veronica, from the press and paparazzi. Meet Archy McNally, a freewheeling playboy who specializes is 'discreet inquires' for the rich and not-so-discreet. After finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. But it's not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. But when Sunny Fogarty, the attractive comptroller for Whitcomb Funeral Homes, approaches McNally Son to investigate an unexplained rise in her companys fortunes, Archy soon finds himself. A workmanlike crime story, which is why two stars rather than one, but it's not my Archie.Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. As an investigator for his fathers Palm Beach law firm, Archy McNally has discreetly handled scores of unusual cases for the firms upscale clientele. He was a writer, known for The Anderson Tapes (1971), Fornicon (1971) and The First Deadly Sin (1980). The character started to change in the first Lardo book, but the change has gone further in this effort. Lawrence Sanders was born on 15 March 1920 in New York City, New York, USA. He is much less interested in clothes and food that has been his wont, and seems to me much harder edged about people, life, and just about everything. That is, he does silly things, like getting involved in amateur theatricals, but he isn't eccentric, and he isn't daft. The core of the series is Archie's character, and in this book - while he is still superficially silly - he isn't ineffably silly. I do not find the post-Sanders books at all an acceptable substitute, and this is the last of the series that I shall read. Sanders, of course, created the series but died the year after the publication of "McNally's Gamble", number seven. Many readers seem to find the Archie books written by Vincent Lardo just as good as the ones written by Lawrence Sanders. Holmes, Archy says: 'I cant glance at a man and immediately know hes left-handed, constipated, has a red-headed wife, and slices lox for a living. Tastes differ, even in matters as frivolous as an Archie McNally mystery, and the reviews of this book show that clearly. In a play filled with murders, only Archy can separate the actors from the genuine article, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally's follies. When an actor takes a sip of prop wine and drops dead, the Palm Beach police suddenly take a special interest in the local theater scene. While resident grande dame Lady Cynthia Horowitz wants a little of the spotlight to fall on her latest live-in hunk, Buzz Carr, she has no intention of letting Buzz rehearse all day with the actress, who, like Lady C, has made marriage a cottage industry.įor poor Archy, there's more drama backstage than onstage, and plenty of confusion everywhere, especially with the fuzzy-headed Binky Watrous serving as stage manager. ![]() To shield her gorgeous daughter from the press and paparazzi, she turns to her longtime friend Archy McNally. After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. Playboy/lover/sleuth Archy McNally is back - and the secrets of the filthy rich in Floridas Palm Beach have never been filthier. 1,434 ratings72 reviews After finding husband number two in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, Melva Williams pulls the trigger - and readily admits to the crime passionnel. When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for its Production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. South Florida's premiere sleuth-about-town strikes again - in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. ![]()
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