![]() *Portions of the content for this post were excerpted from, , and my personal readings. The seven in the series written by Sanders as well as six continued by Lardo are entertaining, light humorous reading with some interesting mystery and intrigue on the side. Read 76 reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. There are thirteen books in the McNally series, seven by Sanders and six by Vincent Lardo, who took over the series following Sanders’ death in 1998: Despite his unorthodox approach to the clients and the investigation process, he always gets the job done. ![]() He conducts his investigations with a playboy approach injecting a great deal of wit and sarcasm. Archy is the sole member of a division of the family firm entitled “Discreet Inquiries”. Archie’s father is a very prim and proper attorney catering to his wealthy Plam Beach clients. McNally serves as a private investigator for McNally and Son’s law firm and often works in tandem with Sergeant Rogoff. In addition to Archie McNally, the series features many recurring characters such as Sergeant Al Rogoff of the Palm Beach Police Department, Lady Cynthia Horowitz, Prescott McNally, Binky Watrous, Connie Garcia, and the Pettibone and Olson families. If anyone can connect a dead waiter in a pool, a deceased duchess, and a possibly phony heir, it’s the Palm Beach PIin this New York Times bestseller.Malcolm MacNiff’s annual Tennis Everyonefundraiser is the high point of the Palm Beach season. ![]() Recurring locales include the fictional Pelican Club, the offices of McNally and Son, as well as the estates of the McNally family and Lady Cynthia Horowitz. The McNally series is set in Palm Beach, Florida. McNally is a fictional private detective who is the protagonist in thirteen McNally novels. One of his most enjoyable series and my favorite is the Archibald “Archy” McNally series. Delaney series The Peter Tangent series The Commandment series The Timothy Cone series The Archy McNally series and 17 stand-alone novels. (One cannot be sure about the authorship: the seven McNally novels are so much better than most other works by the author who used Lawrence Sanders name that it is hard to imagine they were all written by the same person. The late Lawerence Sanders authored numerous series: The Edward X. McNallys Puzzle (1996) is the last Archy McNally novel written by the original author, signed as Mr. Fortunately, many authors that I enjoy reading write their books with recurring main characters - in a series format. I also find that Lardo is just as good as Sanders at telling Archy McNally tales.As I have posted on numerous occasions, I read a lot of series. I don’t recommend it for regular reading but it is fun every once in a while. McNally’s Chance can be a challenging read but I learned a lot looking up words on Google (see pissoir for example) and made me laugh (see pissoir, again). The fun starts when the richest men of a certain age all begin working to avoid a scandal, even if it involves murder. The mother refuses to identify the father who has paid handsomely for her daughter’s upbringing and is now in the upper crust of Palm Beach. Her adopted mother admits to actually being her biological mother and that she was conceived during spring break in Florida. In McNally’s Chance, Archy is hired by a well-known romance novelist who’s adopted daughter has reached the age where she is old enough to defy her mother and search for her biological parents. He is smart and dedicated and solves the crime in spite of his character flaws. I wonder why I have any interest in his stories but it turns out, I do. He has a similarly challenged girl friend that he follows closely so long as it doesn’t get in the way of his roving eye for other women. Archy is the antithesis of the hard boiled detective, preferring instead to live at home with his rich parents, wearing outlandish clothes, eating only the best food, drinking only the best wine and cocktails, all while enjoying the rich culture of Palm Beach, Florida.Īrchy also considers himself a sophisticated gentleman, speaking only the King’s English and making obscure (to me) literary references to make his points. Archy McNally is a character developed by Lawrence Sanders and then used by Vincent Lardo who continues the series under license from Sanders, I assume.
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