McNally's Alibi

A mysterious collector, a missing manuscript, and a troika of lovely ladies challenge Archy McNally, south Florida's most famous Discreet Inquirer.

When Decimus Fortesque, the millionaire collector of wives and rare manuscripts, hires Archy McNally to locate the Holy Grail of missing tomes-the complete text of Truman Capote's Answered Prayers-Palm Beach's premier P. I. uncovers nothing but scandal.

Luscious Claudia Lester declares that her lover, Matthew Harrigan, ran off with it. Harrigan says Claudia is lying. When the supposed owner of the manuscript meets with misadventure in a sleazy motel, and Archy awakens in his Miata with a baseball-sized bump on the head, there's no end to the finger-pointing.

To add to Archy's woes, his favorite gal, Connie Garcia, is being courted by the dashing Alejandro Gomez y Zapata, who has vowed to liberate Cuba from Castro and Connie from Archy. But fear not, for should Archy lose Connie, there just might be a fair-haired lass ready to fill the void-so what if she's packing heat? Romance might have to take a backseat until Archy can sort out who's who among this felonious band of ne'er-do-wells and flimflam artists.

McNally's Bluff

Secrets, surprises, and at least one dead body come out of the closet in the Palm Beach P. I. 's most twisted case yet.

When self-styled impresario and former human cannonball Matthew Hayes rents a luxury villa on Palm Beach's famed South Ocean Boulevard, the locals roll their eyes. But when he scuttles the traditional backyard accoutrements of swimming pool and tennis court in favor of a grand garden hedge maze modeled after the one at Hampton Court, the South Florida smart set can't wait for their invitations-to the gala opening of the Amazin' Maze of Matthew Hayes.

The big night arrives and gasps of wonder and delight are replaced by those of horror, as Hayes's ladylove is discovered at the center of the maze, very dead indeed. The authorities are stumped, as Hayes's carnival background gives rise to a number of possible suspects. Or are there other forces-and more devious minds-at work? Hayes's flair for the dramatic only complicates a mystery that has more false leads than his Amazin' Maze.

It's up to Archy I McNally to see through the scam and catch a killer.

McNally's Chance

Palm Beach's premier man-about-crime returns in a delightfully raucous romp among South Florida's fabulous and felonious.

When Sabrina Wright - bestselling author of sumptuous tales of loves lost and found - asks for Archy McNally's help in finding her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it's not a simple domestic case. Sabrina's husband did not disappear: rather, her daughter Gillian ran off and Sabrina sent him to find Gillian - and he seems to have gotten lost, too.

Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she learned the true story of her birth: that Sabrina had the baby out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. Sabrina never revealed the name of Gillian's father, having received a large sum of money to keep the whole thing quiet. But when local gossips get wind of the story, some very prestigious Palm Beach names seek the help of the posh resort's most discreet inquirer. When the gossip turns deadly, Archy must take a chance in order to unravel a thirty-year old mystery while walking a tightrope between client confidentiality and justice.

McNally's Dare

The dowager duchess of Palm Beach dies, leaving behind a fabulous fortune and a handsome young heir-and Archy McNally is left trying to figure out who's who.

When a young waiter working Malcolm 'Nifty" MacNiff's annual Tennis Everyone! benefit is found dead in Nifty's otherwise pristine swimming pool, it's Archy McNally, south Florida's most famous Discreet Inquirer, who rushes in to salvage the town's reputation and solve the unfortunate crime. Palm Beach is already in a tizzy over the arrival of its newest millionaire, Lance Talbot, just in from Switzerland to claim his inheritance after the demise of his grandmother

Poor Jeff Rodgers has barely been pulled from the water when Palm Beach's rumor mill goes into overdrive. Why has Dennis Darling, crack reporter for Bare Facts magazine, descended on the fair island? Just how did handsome Lance escape that avalanche that took his mother's life, and brought him back to his Florida family? And just who is the alluring Baroness Holga von Brecht, the well-preserved woman on Lance's arm whose ageless features have Palm Beach matrons lusting after her beauty secrets? When an old school chum of Holga's is made redundant, Archy works overtime to snare a double murderer.

McNally's Puzzle

Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower and a man desperate to save himself from an unknown stalker.

He hires Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally, who is convinced he'll soon return his client's life to order -- but then Gottschalk is stabbed in his sleep, and two of his clerks are abducted and killed in the Everglades.

It takes all McNally's skill to put together the pieces.

McNally's Secret

Playboy/detective Archy McNally specializes in "discreet cases" for his father's stodgy and proper Palm Beach law firm. When he is called on to retrieve a set of rare stamps know as "Inverted Jennies" from one of Palm Beach's wealthiest and most curvacious matrons, Archy soon gets much more that he bargained for...

A local collector is slain and all roads lead Archy back to the original crime scene; but before he can put the pieces together, he faces another murder and all-to-real romance. Full of the sultry characters and comic action that are Lawrence Sanders' trademarks, McNally's Secret shows a master of mystery at the top of his game.

McNally's Trial

As an investigator for his father's Palm Beach law firm, Archy McNally has discreetly handled scores of unusual cases for the firm's upscale clientele. But when Sunny Fogarty, the attractive comptroller for Whitcomb Funeral Homes, approaches McNally & Son to investigate an unexplained rise in her company's fortunes, Archy soon finds himself conducting a most peculiar investigation.

It seems that an inordinate amount of the dead bodies handled by the Whitcomb homes are being shipped north for burial. As Archy searches for an explanation, he is sucked into the Whitcomb family's internal power struggles while his relationship with Sunny takes on new steamy dimensions. Confronted on all sides by characters with questionable motives, Archy smells a connection to the seedy side of Palm Beach society, and he must unravel the mystery before the pile of corpses grows any higher.

With a colorful cast of characters and scintillating plot twists, McNally's Trial is another rollicking ride from the master of suspense.