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. What we derive are laughs, knowing smiles, a intricate plot with memorable characters and (surprisingly) empathy for Archy despite the following: 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.Įducated 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. 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. McNally is always fun, entertaining and engaging - right down to his pastel dinner jackets. When mixed together his skills serve to embarrass his father - but save him as well. His sleuthing efforts combine a mix of street smarts, savoir fair, charm and charisma and bullshit. He has a fabulous and devoted steady girl - to whom he has made promises and he's devoted to a mom with the early stages of dementia who comes across as a fading character from times long past - except when her assessment of her devoted but priggish husband make it clear that she is sharper than most. He can't afford luxurious digs - so he lives with Mom and Dad - how else would a guy with his resources be able to live right on the water and have servants at his disposal. He didn't make it through law school to make his stuffy old law firm dad happy, but he manages to solve some tricky problems that Dad's clients seem to get themselves into regularly. He's an affluent living, intelligent, capable underachiever - and he's fine with that. And the next set of human remains could be his.Sanders' character Archie McNally is nothing short of brilliant. Murder worthy of the headline Death-styles of the Rich and Famous add to McNally’s tribulations. 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. 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. “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. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. 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.
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