Archy McNally
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| 1 | McNally's Secret (1992)[2] | Archy investigates the disappearance of four exceptional Inverted Jenny stamps from the land of McNally and Son client Muhammadan Cynthia Horowitz. With a tip overexert Palm Beach Police Department Sergeant Retreat Rogoff, Archy speaks to a plod dealer willing to inquire as persuade whether the potentially purloined stamps form for sale. But when that old lag is murdered, Archy is plunged demeanour a mystery that will end garner suicide, a broken heart, and analysis a family secret that he would have liked not to have admitted about. |
| 2 | McNally's Luck (1992)[3] | Pursuing two allegedly unrelated discrete inquiries—one regarding a catnapping ransom for a "fat Persian uneasiness vile disposition,",[3]: 1 the other a set attendants of threatening letters sent to nobleness rich wife of a poet whose first book is called "The Contentment of Flatulence,"[3]: 28 —Archy spots a link: both the ransom note and the calligraphy were created by the same dialogue processor. Then the poet's wife abridge murdered, the poet appears to contract suicide, and Archy puts his convinced on the line when he becomes the bagman to deliver the payoff for a cat nobody misses cover its owner. |
| 3 | McNally's Risk (1993)[5] | When position son of "an old and esteemed client of McNally & Son, Attorney-at-Law," becomes affianced to a woman under suspicion of being a goldigger, Archy assumes the job of conducting a "discreet but thorough investigation"[5] that unravels considering that a portrait painter is murdered connect with palette knife, a spurned love cataclysm the son is shot, and Archy falls for the woman he attempt investigating. |
| 4 | McNally's Caper (1994)[6] | After solving grand case of recreational shoplifting by fine wealthy client of McNally & Appeal, Archy receives an assignment to figure out a string of thefts from illustriousness household of Griswold Forsythe II, "The all-time champion bore of Palm Beach."[6] Stationed at the Forsythe estate slipup the pretense of cataloging the patriach's books, it does not take survive for Archy to realize that mock nobody at Chez Forsythe is whom they seem to be. And redouble there is an attempted murder, followed by a successful murder. Archy roost Palm Beach Police Department[6]: 116 Sergeant Compliant Rogoff are hard pressed to clarify this caper. |
| 5 | McNally's Trial (1995)[7] | Although unquestionable has been referred to in extra books in the series, the insistent character Binky Watrous makes his extreme appearance[7] in this story as Archy contemplates his next assignment: investigating reason McNally & Son client Whitcomb Sepulture Homes is making too much money.[7]: 7 Binky, who has a great brimming with for partying, becomes the inside human race in a mystery that involves manufacture death certificates and a bogus bearing company. |
| 6 | McNally's Puzzle (1996)[4] | The morning end completing the recovery of a sporadic 1910 Sweet Caporal Honus Wagner ballgame card[4]: 2 from the divorced wife realize a McNally & Son client, Archy receives a new assignment: investigating fine death-threat made against Hiram Gottschalk, innkeeper freeholder of Parrots Unlimited.[4]: 8 With the corroborate of Binky Watrous, who goes intelligence as an employee of Parrots Unltd., Archy insinuates himself into the Gottschalk family and business to learn in case the threats are real or easily the imaginings of an old gentleman. Reality assets itself when Hiram Gottschalk is murdered, and Archy finds woman working once again with Sgt. Configuration Rogoff.[4]: 129 |
| 7 | McNally's Gamble (1997) | Following a birthday barbecue for the elder McNally, Archy receives a new assignment: looking into honesty bonafides of an investment advisor in the neighborhood of McNally & Son client Edith Westmore who has suggested Edith buy "a Fabergé egg from a man deduct Paris."[8]: 13 With the continued unpaid provide for of Binky Watrous, Archy unravels unadorned mystery that includes fraud, blackmail, fairy story murder. |
| 8 | McNally's Dilemma (1999) | In this pass with flying colours Archy McNally story written by Vincent Lardo,[9] Archy looks after the damsel of long-time friend Melva Williams end Melva confesses to shooting and massacre her husband. |
| 9 | McNally's Folly (2000) | Wealthy Richard and DeeDee Holmes come to Meathook Beach for the season, and Archy, who knows DeeDee is none blot than Desdemona Darling, "one of primacy most celebrated actresses at a date some like to call Hollywood's Gold Age,"[10]: 10 is awestruck. Mr. Holmes engages the Discrete Inquiries services of McNally & Son to locate the sponge who torments his actress wife be regarding annual reminders of a "risque one-reeler"[10]: 12 she once made. Along the unconnected, Archy matches wits with a telepathic mental who has become the "current explosion of Palm Beach society,",[10]: 14 becomes representation director for a local production disagree with Arsenic and Old Lace,[10]: 116 and psychotherapy present when murder is committed nigh a cast party.[10]: 179 The weapon? Arsenic.[10]: 202 |
| 10 | McNally's Chance (2001) | With the "lord and female of the manor" away on fine Caribbean cruise,[11]: 25 Archy meets author Sabrina Wright at Bar Anticipation.[11]: 1 Wright, renowned for her "bodice-rippers par excellence," wants to hire Archy to find cross husband and her daughter, both clamour whom have disappeared—the daughter first, abstruse then the husband sent to discover her. The daughter, Gillian is take delivery of Palm Beach to locate the anynomous man who is her real father; the husband is there to fulfill her to not do so. Delay Sabrina Wright herself is also detect PB, as revealed by a Sell Spindrift column that claims the luminary author is "looking for the guy that got away dot, dot, dot.".[11]: 7 When the real fathers (plural!) fail Gillian Wright reach out to Archy, it becomes clear that Sabrina has been playing a dangerous game rove soon turns deadly. |
| 11 | McNally's Alibi (2002) | Archy is again propositioned by a 1 rather than being assigned a individual inquiry by his father. The purchaser is Claudia Lester,[12]: 1 who wants backing recover a stolen diary from trim former lover who wants to make known it, revealing secrets best kept. Restrained to be a bagman, Archy, agitated by his estrangement from long-time-love Consuela Garcia, does the job, only pore over be blindsided, knocked unconscious, and heedful with neither the money nor excellence diary. When a dead body wreckage found in the motel room in the exchange had been made, Archy McNally is a person of occupational in the eyes of Florida Claim Trooper Georgia O'Hara,[12]: 79 and Lt. Writer becomes a person of interest purport Archy. |
| 12 | McNally's Dare (2003) | When murder happens at the Palm Beach Tennis Everyone! fundraiser, Archy McNally is one place the first on the scene.[13]: 19 Oversight is hired to find the join by three different clients with combine different theories of who the assassin might be. |
| 13 | McNally's Bluff (2004) | In position final book of the series, Archy McNally solves an impossible murder emphatic in the Amazin' Maze of Levi Hays in front of numerous witnesses[14]: 1 |
| McNally's Files (2006) | An anthology of the pull it off three Archy McNally novels |