McNally's Gamble - Hardcover

Sanders, Lawrence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399142487 ISBN 13: 9780399142482

Publisher: Putnam, 1997

Synopsis

While investigating a wealthy widow's possible purchase of an Imperial Faberge+a7 egg, the strange behavior of family advisors, her children, and an aged antiques dealer plunges Archy McNally into a mess of greed, passion, and murder. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.

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Review:

Archy McNally, the hero of Lawrence Sander's latest whodunit McNally's Gamble is a throwback to an earlier, more gracious age. He lives well, dresses well, and keeps hours that Dashiell Hammet's "Thin Man," Nick Charles, would approve of. When not wining, dining, or driving his fire-engine red Miata around Palm Beach, Archy keeps discreet tabs on the wealthy clients of his father's law firm. Then one day, Edythe Westmore, a well-to-do widow, considers buying a Fabergé Imperial Egg and all hell breaks loose. Her children are displeased, her lawyer (Archy's father) is concerned, and Archy is up to his neck in intrigue.

Sanders writes a serviceable mystery, but the real pleasure in McNally's Gamble is Archy. Imagine Bertie Wooster as a detective, or Lord Peter Wimsey a Floridian, and you'll have some idea of Archy. Though he describes himself as "a frivolous scatterbrain," he has enough discipline to solve the case and, by the end, land the girl, as well.

About the Author:

Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than twenty-two bestsellers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0399142487
• ISBN 13: 9780399142482
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 307