When she turns up dead, however, Archy must take a chance and hope to discover which of these men would kill to conceal his secret.Ī mysterious collector, a missing manuscript, and a troika of lovely ladies challenge Archy McNally, South Florida’s most famous Discreet Inquirer. Sabrina had committed indiscretions with all three and collected from all three. But when local gossips get wind of the story, three different Palm Beach gents come to Archy to confess their paternity and beg him to protect them from any scandal. Sabrina has never revealed the name of Gillian’s father, having received a large sum of money to keep the whole thing quiet. Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she learned the true story of her birth: Sabrina had the baby out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. Sabrina’s husband did not disappear: rather, her daughter, Gillian, ran off, and Sabrina sent the man, not her father, to find her and he seems to have gotten lost, too. When Sabrina Wright, bestselling author of sumptuous tales of loves lost and found, asks for Archy McNally’s help in finding her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it’s not a simple domestic case. Palm Beach’s premier man about crime returns, in a delightfully raucous romp among South Florida’s fabulous and felonious. In a play filled with murderers, only Archy can separate the actors from the genuine article, clear Binky, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally’s follies. But 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. For 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. And while resident grand 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. After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for their production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. South Florida’s premier sleuth about town strikes again in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. A delectable combination of high society and high jinks, and featuring some of the most eccentric characters 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 has gotten away. 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. Veronica is no damsel in distress though, 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 & Sons’ Department of Discreet Inquiries until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter, Veronica, from the press and paparazzi. 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. Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorn*y tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style. And it proves, once again, that Archy McNally is, as Cosmopolitan described him, ‘as amusing and rich as Dorothy Sayers’ great creation, Lord Peter Wimsey.’ Lawrence Sanders’s latest Palm Beach thriller fairly sizzles with greed, glitz, gals, and gore. Fighting his way through copious deaths and fiendish scams, Archy pieces together elements of a strange and grisly puzzle, including: a sealed letter containing a horrifying secret a nude dancer who knows more than she reveals a missing portrait someone would kill for and a butterfly tattoo in a very private place, which could be the key to the murder spree. But when the artist for whom she posed is killed, McNally’s job takes on a decidedly dangerous turn, and he begins to suspect the demure damsel might be both a poser and a poseur. Hired by a formidable matron to investigate the shadowy bona fides of her bubble headed son’s beloved, Archy is wowed by the enigmatic innamorata’s purity and pulchritude. 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. The unbeatable master of suspense returns, in a wickedly wayward case of artists, models, and murder.
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