Ebook346 pages6 hours
McNally's Trial
Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
5/5
()
About this ebook
The Palm Beach PI is on the case of a corpse conspiracy. “Lawrence Sanders has honed a voice for Archy McNally that is wonderfully infectious” (The Washington Times).
Business is booming at Whitcomb Funeral Homes in southern Florida. Called in to investigate this inexplicable uptick, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds himself in the middle of a most unusual case. In the past six months, Whitcomb has shipped out five hundred dead bodies. 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. Murder worthy of the headline Death-styles of the Rich and Famous add to McNally’s tribulations. And the next set of human remains could be his.
Business is booming at Whitcomb Funeral Homes in southern Florida. Called in to investigate this inexplicable uptick, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds himself in the middle of a most unusual case. In the past six months, Whitcomb has shipped out five hundred dead bodies. 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. Murder worthy of the headline Death-styles of the Rich and Famous add to McNally’s tribulations. And the next set of human remains could be his.
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.
Read more from Lawrence Sanders
The Anderson Tapes Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Sullivan's Sting Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Caper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related to McNally's Trial
Titles in the series (23)
The Archy McNally Series Volume Two: McNally's Caper, McNally's Trial, McNally's Puzzle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Dare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Bluff Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Dilemma Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Alibi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Caper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Luck Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Folly Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Chance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Puzzle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Gamble Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archy McNally Series Volume Three: McNally's Gamble, McNally's Dilemma, McNally's Folly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Trial Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Risk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archy McNally Series Volume One: McNally's Secret, McNally's Luck, and McNally's Risk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Folly Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Secret Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMcNally's Chance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Caper Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMcNally's Puzzle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Dilemma Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Gamble Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Related ebooks
McNally's Puzzle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Secret Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archy McNally Series Volume Two: McNally's Caper, McNally's Trial, McNally's Puzzle Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archy McNally Series Volume One: McNally's Secret, McNally's Luck, and McNally's Risk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Painted Gun Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Luck Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Alibi Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Gamble Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Dilemma Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Chance Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Caper Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Folly Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5McNally's Risk Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5McNally's Bluff Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Timothy's Game Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5McNally's Dare Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Second Deadly Sin Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Fourth Deadly Sin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Seventh Commandment Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Timothy Files Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Eighth Commandment Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Tenth Commandment Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Third Deadly Sin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The First Deadly Sin Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Archy McNally Series Volume Three: McNally's Gamble, McNally's Dilemma, McNally's Folly Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Truth of the Matter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Sixth Commandment Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Act of God Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Butch Karp and Marlene Ciampi Novels Volume Two: Reversible Error, Material Witness, and Justice Denied Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Acts of Nature Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Mystery For You
Pretty Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summit Lake Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good Daughter: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone: A Murdery Mystery Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Last Flight: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life We Bury Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Paris Apartment: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5False Witness: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5None of This Is True: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hidden Staircase: Nancy Drew #2 Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Club: A Reese's Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The River We Remember: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sherlock Holmes: The Ultimate Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Pharmacist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kept Woman: A Will Trent Thriller Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Murder Your Employer: The McMasters Guide to Homicide Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5How to Write a Mystery: A Handbook from Mystery Writers of America Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Jack Reacher: A Mysterious Profile Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Dark Side: A Collection of Mysteries & Thrillers Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Hunting Party: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Murder of Roger Ackroyd Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Did I Kill You?: A Thriller Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Finlay Donovan Is Killing It: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Woman in the Library: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Complete Short Stories Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Big Lies in a Small Town: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People Next Door Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for McNally's Trial
Rating: 4.8 out of 5 stars
5/5
5 ratings3 reviews
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This is number five in the Archie McNally saga, and it is perhaps my favorite to date. Archie's personality is in full bloom, and the mystery in which he becomes involved is an interesting puzzle on its own merits. Archie's combination of charm, eccentricity, self-confidence, and amorality (sexual amorality, anyway) remains in place, but the details are particularly vivid -- his riffs on food, clothing and romance are delightful. As to the mystery, it involves surging profits and a funeral home, and proceeds (inevitably) to murder. This episode gives a prominent role to Archie's very dim friend Binkie. I love Binkie, but then I love Bertie Wooster. If you don't like Wodehouse, be warned.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I'm disappointed. He didn't dwell on food as much as usual. I usually have to put down his books and get a snack. Whether it's Chief Delaney's unbelievable sandwiches or one of Archy's repasts, you have rarely let me down.Enjoyable book but not terribly clever. I felt like shaking these people -- duh, you can't figure out what the bad guys are doing?!? The addition of Binky as his aid-de-camp (with emphasis on the camp) was particularly enjoyable.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It’s pretty hard not to love a book that throws in such uncommon words such as hirsute, acumen, trichologist, inamorata, prolixity, and characters who confuse the Nutcracker with the famous Christmas ballet the Ballbreaker.”
Archy McNally is sort of an American Jeeves, and I can envision David Case reading these books to perfection. This was my first — not to be the last — Sanders. McNally is the hedonistic quasi detective who handles discreet inquiries for his father, the prestigious Palm Beach lawyer. In a nutshell as described by the book’s bad guy, “ Your father is an attorney but doesn’t do litigation. You started out to be a lawyer but got kicked out of school. You’re single and live with your parents. You drink but you’re no doper. You do investigations for your father’s firm.”
McNally’s sidekick is Binky Watrous, supported by the Duchess, who is threatening to cut off Bink’s allowance, so, always wanting to be a P.I., he asks to work for McNally in this most amusing investigation. (“It wasn’t that Binky was incapable of reasoning, but his gears had slipped a bit, just enough so his thinking was slightly skewed. I mean, he was the kind of numbskull who, informed that a friend had choked to death on a fish bone, was likely to inquire, ‘Broiled or sautéed?'” and “His sartorial sense is gravely retarded. He once wore spats over flip-flops to a beach barbecue.”) McNally has been approached by Sunny Fogarty, the nubile treasurer of Whitcomb Funeral Homes. It seems they have been making obscene amounts of money — too many people have been dying — and she can’s understand why. Archy, with the approval of his father, agrees to make some discreet inquiries. The Whitcomb Funeral Home situation is complicated. The patriarch, Horace, has left a controlling share in the family business to his dying wife, Sarah, and is in the midst of a battle with his son, Oliver, who wants to expand the business into a nationwide franchise. Oliver’s wife, Mitzi, falls for Binky, and then develops an unhealthy involvement with a local gangster. It seems that Oliver and this nefarious gentleman have been shipping caskets all over the country where they are picked up not by other funeral homes, but the same cartage service that happens to be owned by the same gangster..
Forced to hobnob with the Palm Beach upper crust, Archy remains skeptical — he wears a puce beret -- even though his own family dresses for dinner and suffers through repasts consisting of a cocktail hour, “shrimp and scallops sautéed with capers, roasted peppers and sundried tomatoes.”
The fun with this book isn’t trying to figure out who did what or why, it’s Archy’s joie-de-vie and high society ostentatiousness
Book preview
McNally's Trial - Lawrence Sanders
MRUe book_preview_excerpt.html }ݒFsaG{b^l
IJBP$a(
hoMIAgoƭnʟ/3no1wͿ+?1|xcի_~(>O>s?}r}j_lX4}i:a[tUnlSqtxS"'U/;Mt>tC'>0lX}7XU
LQx(Ǚ,M,&}ql?S7f
W:5}[bESwc{*US(_LpU]XOlJo_&F[
',|
xq_ϐ[jubیߜV7
^|u%n{Qob`?85;75[w/:x`Ea[0>NlC.r!ao=\OBŲ=gB.cZz*^AsGD`re:rv:wlON/?7>16ܦ~:z_+B"2x^RDT)3t| ں |QB[钌wpY|lտxA[b!+ C<Bf"a}E]W}UǴn^ybgL{+j\{_yͣ*q`OLncgZ%SS^fC2qxe{^s{#q
ڏ}zOf&u4\l{>>dd|\cƚ[ lXg\g3v[8ڭ\dqh:}3w6[Е.$e:.++l߿/]S[r|SSheσFSqEN2RL-ţer0tZ~bz3-⼲_pmmZ~nffkAއ0BgCxOtC'zO2naDcʨnOX~sP"|0!/zZ ^)Po_8̏a˅o>Ed6qt<=6FxȑY,2q7P<1Cl1bh 5?̗N{/V2t#iM