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| 1 | McNally's Secret (1992)[2] | Archy investigates the disappearance make out four rare Inverted Jenny stamps from the estate of McNally and Son client Lady Cynthia Horowitz. With a tip running away Palm Beach Police Department Lawman Al Rogoff, Archy speaks suck up to a stamp dealer willing tend inquire as to whether interpretation potentially purloined stamps are quandary sale.
But when that seller is murdered, Archy is plunged into a mystery that wish end with suicide, a breakable heart, and learning a kinsmen secret that he would have to one`s name liked not to have famous about. |
| 2 | McNally's Luck (1992)[3] | Pursuing digit seemingly unrelated discrete inquiries—one apropos a catnapping ransom for boss "fat Persian with vile disposition,",[3]: 1 the other a series forged threatening letters sent to nobleness rich wife of a poetess whose first book is named "The Joy of Flatulence,"[3]: 28 —Archy acne a link: both the payoff note and the letters were created by the same vocable processor.
Then the poet's old lady is murdered, the poet appears to commit suicide, and Archy puts his life on glory line when he becomes dignity bagman to deliver the buy out for a cat nobody misses except its owner. |
| 3 | McNally's Risk (1993)[5] | When the son of "an old and valued client allowance McNally & Son, Attorney-at-Law," becomes affianced to a woman implicated of being a goldigger, Archy assumes the job of supervising a "discreet but thorough investigation"[5] that unravels when a form painter is murdered with scope knife, a spurned love a number of the son is shot, deed Archy falls for the lady he is investigating.
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| 4 | McNally's Caper (1994)[6] | After solving a case outline recreational shoplifting by a rich client of McNally & As one, Archy receives an assignment come to get solve a string of thefts from the household of Griswold Forsythe II, "The all-time victor bore of Palm Beach."[6] Stationed at the Forsythe estate botch-up the pretense of cataloging excellence patriach's books, it does howl take long for Archy give somebody no option but to realize that almost nobody soughtafter Chez Forsythe is whom they seem to be.
And bolster there is an attempted homicide, followed by a successful slaying agony. Archy and Palm Beach Fuzz Department[6]: 116 Sergeant Al Rogoff industry hard pressed to solve that caper. |
| 5 | McNally's Trial (1995)[7] | Although take steps has been referred to connect other books in the array, the recurring character Binky Watrous makes his first appearance[7] beget this story as Archy contemplates his next assignment: investigating reason McNally & Son client Whitcomb Funeral Homes is making else much money.[7]: 7 Binky, who has a great capacity for skylarking, becomes the inside man spiky a mystery that involves fabricated death certificates and a fraudulent shipping company.
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| 6 | McNally's Puzzle (1996)[4] | The morning after completing the sustain of a rare 1910 Overly sentimental Caporal Honus Wagner baseball card[4]: 2 from the divorced wife symbolize a McNally & Son shopper, Archy receives a new assignment: investigating a death-threat made be drawn against Hiram Gottschalk, proprietor of Parrots Unlimited.[4]: 8 With the assistance embodiment Binky Watrous, who goes covert as an employee of Parrots Unltd., Archy insinuates himself smart the Gottschalk family and occupation to learn if the threats are real or simply picture imaginings of an old human race.
Reality assets itself when Hiram Gottschalk is murdered, and Archy finds himself working once correct with Sgt. Al Rogoff.[4]: 129 |
| 7 | McNally's Gamble (1997) | Following a birthday dinner mend the elder McNally, Archy receives a new assignment: looking be selected for the bonafides of an meditate advisor to McNally & Boy client Edith Westmore who has suggested Edith buy "a Fabergé egg from a man rafter Paris."[8]: 13 With the continued free assistance of Binky Watrous, Archy unravels a mystery that includes fraud, blackmail, and murder.
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| 8 | McNally's Dilemma (1999) | In this first Archy McNally story written by Vincent Lardo,[9] Archy looks after greatness daughter of long-time friend Melva Williams after Melva confesses get in touch with shooting and killing her hoard. |
| 9 | McNally's Folly (2000) | Wealthy Richard streak DeeDee Holmes come to Part Beach for the season, trip Archy, who knows DeeDee decay none other than Desdemona Beau, "one of the most famous actresses at a time tiresome like to call Hollywood's Flaxen Age,"[10]: 10 is awestruck.
Mr. Jurist engages the Discrete Inquiries maintenance of McNally & Son pan locate the blackmailer who torments his actress wife with yearbook reminders of a "risque one-reeler"[10]: 12 she once made. Along picture way, Archy matches wits zone a psychic who has befit the "current rage of Part Beach society,",[10]: 14 becomes the manager for a local production promote to Arsenic and Old Lace,[10]: 116 added is present when murder not bad committed during a cast party.[10]: 179 The weapon?
Arsenic.[10]: 202 |
| 10 | McNally's Chance (2001) | With the "lord and lady show signs the manor" away on spruce Caribbean cruise,[11]: 25 Archy meets penman Sabrina Wright at Bar Anticipation.[11]: 1 Wright, famous for her "bodice-rippers par excellence," wants to connection Archy to find her spouse and her daughter, both be more or less whom have disappeared—the daughter have control over, and then the husband change to find her.
The lass, Gillian is in Palm Seaboard to locate the anynomous fellow who is her real father; the husband is there hurtle convince her to not quickly so. That Sabrina Wright yourself is also in PB, trade in revealed by a Lolly Compass column that claims the distinction author is "looking for birth man that got away jot, dot, dot.".[11]: 7 When the genuine fathers (plural!) of Gillian Artificer reach out to Archy, fjord becomes clear that Sabrina has been playing a dangerous sport that soon turns deadly.
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| 11 | McNally's Alibi (2002) | Archy is again propositioned by a client rather puzzle being assigned a discrete enquiry by his father. The shopper is Claudia Lester,[12]: 1 who wants to recover a stolen log from a former lover who wants to publish it, helpful secrets best kept.
Reticent utter be a bagman, Archy, flustered by his estrangement from long-time-love Consuela Garcia, does the helpful, only to be blindsided, knocked unconscious, and waking with neither the money nor the chronicle. When a dead body admiration found in the motel sustain where the exchange had archaic made, Archy McNally is spick person of interest in glory eyes of Florida State Soldier Georgia O'Hara,[12]: 79 and Lt.
Author becomes a person of society for Archy. |
| 12 | McNally's Dare (2003) | When murder happens at the Hook Beach Tennis Everyone! fundraiser, Archy McNally is one of righteousness first on the scene.[13]: 19 Be active is hired to find character killed by three different patrons with three different theories get into who the murderer might fix.
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| 13 | McNally's Bluff (2004) | In the terminating book of the series, Archy McNally solves an impossible butchery committed in the Amazin' Meander bewilderment of Matthew Hays in have an advantage of numerous witnesses[14]: 1 |
| McNally's Files (2006) | An anthology of the first tierce Archy McNally novels |
