Is he tipping his hat to the Archy Goodwin of Rex Stout? This Archy is more in line with Hammett's Sam Spade in adopting a persona that allows him to float through many levels of society while, because of his fatuousness, not being given credit for the depth of understanding he brings to his detection.Highly enjoyable, the trick will be for Sanders to go forward, exploring the permutations of this little world without it becoming a stale formula. What we derive are laughs, knowing smiles, a intricate plot with memorable characters and (surprisingly) empathy for Archy despite the following:He is vain often, superficial a social butterfly a cad a devotee of the pursuit of the opposite sex and, less than truthful in many of his relationships.Kudos to Sanders for making it work. Sanders successfully walks a very fine line between insipid details (of food, clothing, wine, cars, etc.) and outright burlesque. Father McNally is head of a local law firm and the son, Archy, a Yale failure, is responsible for the firm's discreet inquiries.Educated at the proper Ivy League schools, the McNally family fits in as the well-to-do vassals of the Palm Beach nobility. This is where McNally & Son have chosen to serve their clientele. Then, there was still a lot of the old money around and the need to fit in to a society that those recently rich could only aspire to. And the next set of human remains could be his.Let's go back about a quarter of a century to THAT Palm Beach, Florida - The one that Donald Trump was so anxious to be accepted into. If larceny is good for the soul, Palm Beach must be confidence heaven so discovers Lawrence Sanders’s sleuth about town Archy McNally in his third boffo baffler, McNally’s Risk. Murder worthy of the headline Death-styles of the Rich and Famous add to McNally’s tribulations. The unbeatable master of suspense returns, in a wickedly wayward case of artists, models, and murder. Why are so many caskets leaving the Sunshine State and being airlifted to New York, Boston, and Chicago? And why did Whitcomb’s comely comptroller come to McNally & Son in the first place? Further complicating McNally’s life are his air-headed buddy, Binky Watrous, who wants to be his private-eye assistant, and his faithful love, Connie Garcia, who’s got her spies when it comes to McNally’s weakness for the ladies. In the past six months, Whitcomb has shipped out five hundred dead bodies. It sounds like an open-and-shut case for McNally and Sons Department of Discreet Inquiries, and all the widow asks is that Archy shield her daughter from. Called in to investigate this inexplicable uptick, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds himself in the middle of a most unusual case. Business is booming at Whitcomb Funeral Homes in southern Florida. Filter Imprint Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller 14 Atria Books 5 Recorded Books Inc. “Lawrence Sanders has honed a voice for Archy McNally that is wonderfully infectious” ( The Washington Times ). The Palm Beach PI is on the case of a corpse conspiracy. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. The Palm Beach sleuth tries to find a thiefand a killeramong a rich, eccentric family, in this New York Times bestseller. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. Beneath the glaring sun of Palm Beach - and behind the lowest crimes of high society - McNally is paid to keep family skeletons in the clo. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. Book - 1 Archy McNally, a freewheeling playboy who specializes in 'Discreet Inquiries' for the rich and not-so-discreet.
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