McNally's Trial (The Archy McNally Series Book 5)

“Affluent private investigator Archy McNally cracks yet another case in this newest addition to the author’s bestselling series.” — Library Journal “Lawrence Sanders has honed a voice for Archy McNally that is wonderfully infectious. You can’t help falling for him!” — The Washington Times Lawrence Sanders (1920–1998) was the New York Times bestselling author of more than forty mystery and suspense novels. The Anderson Tapes, completed when he was fifty years old, received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for best first novel. His prodigious oeuvre encompasses the Edward X. Delaney, Archy McNally, and Timothy Cone series, along with his acclaimed Commandment books. Stand-alone novels include Sullivan's Sting and Caper. Sanders remains one of America’s most popular novelists, with more than fifty million copies of his books in print. From Library Journal Affluent private investigator Archie McNally cracks yet another case in this newest addition to the author's best-selling series.Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Publishers Weekly Suggesting a morally bankrupt, sun-tanned Bertie Wooster, Archy McNally sleuths among Florida's well-heeled Palm Beach set in this lightweight crime series from the author of the Deadly Sins and Commandments thrillers. Archy, an occasional investigator for his stuffy lawyer father, here agrees to look into the sudden "uptick" in business that is worrying a pretty exec at the exclusive Whitcomb Funeral Homes. Too many people are dying, observes the woman, and being shipped up north in coffins. In between boozing, lying to his girlfriend and delivering sub-Wodehouse patter that lacks both wit and an anchoring value system, Archy and his gormless pal Binky Watrous investigate the likable old couple who own the funeral homes and their son and his wife, whose swinging lifestyle makes Archy's look tame. The trick of insinuating character eludes Sanders, who, if a woman dissembles or a doctor is stoned to the gills, hits us over the head with the facts. While an occasional few of Archy's quips are funny, Sanders's dialogue is mostly as stiff as the story's corpses. Literary Guild selection. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Booklist Here is the fifth outing for Archibald "Archy" McNally, the playboy son of and private investigator for prestigious Palm Beach attorney Prescott McNally. This time, Archy is befuddled by what is really being shipped north in caskets by a prominent mortuary. Almost any mystery reader will have figured out the answer by the middle of chapter five, but the fun here isn't in the plot; it's in Archy's descriptions of life among the monied classes. Whether he is describing the sumptuous meals served at least twice a day in the McNally manse or the joys of tooling around southern Florida in a fire-engine-red Miata, Archy demonstrates such an eye for the telling detail and such obvious joie de vivre that the reader can only be amused by his upper-crust ostentation. The novel also boasts a delightful assembly of supporting characters, especially Archy's pal, the totally dissolute, utterly inept would-be detective Binky Watrous. A pleasant diversion from the best-selling author of the Ten Commandments mystery series. George Needham --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Read more