McNally's Secret

Archy McNally, Book 1

By: Lawrence Sanders

Narrated by: Victor Bevine

Playful, seductive, irresistible - this best-selling masterwork of fatal passion and greed introduces Lawrence Sanders's most wickedly charming sleuth. Meet Archy McNally, a freewheeling playboy who specializes is "discreet inquires" for the rich and not-so-discreet. Beneath the glaring sun of Palm Beach - and behind the lowest crimes of high society - McNally is paid to keep family skeletons in the closet. But when it comes to sex and scandal, McNally has a few secrets of his own....

©1992 The Lawrence A. Sanders Foundation, Inc. (P)2013 Audible, Inc.

Always Good

I really like the McNally books. Always well written and great stories. The best ones were the early ones written by Sanders himself.

Do one!

One of my favourite series. Author and narrator deliver a truly livable scamp in Archibald.

THE FIRST OF ARCHIE MCNALLY'S CRAZY CASES!

MCNALLY'S SECRET BY LAWRENCE SANDERS is the first in the Archie McNally series and in this humble listener, the best! Archis is the "SON" in Mcnally and Son attorney at law in Palm Beach. Archie is NOT an attorney but head and only person who is in charge of "discrete inquiries" for the law Firms clients. When the wealthy want help but don't want the police or the press involved, they go to McNally and Son. In McNally's Secret, Archie is tasked to quietly find four inverted Jenny stamps stolen from Lady Cynthia Horowitz. What starts out as a quiet ho hum investigation leads to murder and Archie is right smack in the middle of it all. Archie is also, during the investigation wanting to know why Lady C is lying about her whereabouts and takes it upon himself to find that out as well.

I love Archie McNally's Secret. I have lost count of how many times I have listen to or read this book. Each time I laugh at Archie, and continue to love Archie and all of his discrete inquiries !

Story is cheesy, characters cheesier, I love it!

Let's face it, Sanders is not Dickens or Follett or Vince Flynn. He's fun. The McNally series is just one of those books to grab when you want a complete and total escape. It moves well, it dances poignantly, and it leaves you with a constant smile.

I read the whole series in print, and in my mind, I had the voices and nuances. It took me a couple of chapters to get my mind in sync with Victor Bevine. By the time the book was finished, I thoroughly enjoyed his performance.

The McNally plots are almost always the same, but who cares. I'm going to download them all ... in fact I would have done so, but the 87th Precinct Series has just started to go audio. So many books, and only two ears.

Amusing, but ...

The story is dated as is the description of women as "bimbos" and conquests. Be prepared for James Bond mores in a story set in Florida.