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McNally's Folly
By Lawrence Sanders and Vincent Lardo
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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When the husband of an actress sips a poisoned potable, Lawrence Sanders’s beloved Palm Beach PI must stage an investigation from his director’s chair.
One of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Desdemona Darling, has come South for the season. She makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Archy McNally somehow gets roped into directing—and into discreetly investigating who could be blackmailing his star. Life tragically imitates art when Richard Holmes—Darling’s Husband Number Seven—sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party. Holmes was a self-made millionaire with a genius for betting on pork bellies. But who’d want him dead? As McNally tries to smoke out the culprit, he wonders if he’s getting too close to a remorseless killer who’s about to drop the curtain on another victim.
One of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Desdemona Darling, has come South for the season. She makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Archy McNally somehow gets roped into directing—and into discreetly investigating who could be blackmailing his star. Life tragically imitates art when Richard Holmes—Darling’s Husband Number Seven—sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party. Holmes was a self-made millionaire with a genius for betting on pork bellies. But who’d want him dead? As McNally tries to smoke out the culprit, he wonders if he’s getting too close to a remorseless killer who’s about to drop the curtain on another victim.
Author
Lawrence Sanders
Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than thirty-five bestsellers, including the original McNally novels. Vincent Lardo is the author of The Hampton Affair and The Hampton Connection, as well as five McNally novels. He lives on the East End of Long Island.
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Tastes differ, even in matters as frivolous as an Archie McNally mystery, and the reviews of this book show that clearly. Many readers seem to find the Archie books written by Vincent Lardo just as good as the ones written by Lawrence Sanders. Sanders, of course, created the series but died the year after the publication of "McNally's Gamble", number seven. I do not find the post-Sanders books at all an acceptable substitute, and this is the last of the series that I shall read. The core of the series is Archie's character, and in this book -- while he is still superficially silly -- he isn't ineffably silly. That is, he does silly things, like getting involved in amateur theatricals, but he isn't eccentric, and he isn't daft. He is much less interested in clothes and food that has been his wont, and seems to me much harder edged about people, life, and just about everything. The character started to change in the first Lardo book, but the change has gone further in this effort. I shall not follow it further. A workmanlike crime story, which is why two stars rather than one, but it's not my Archie.
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