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Summary: I'm addicted and want to meet the author
Review: A few months ago I picked up McNally's Trial and read it. I enjoyed it so much, I have now read all the McNally books and look forward to more. Archy and his pals make me laugh out loud as I'm reading. Sanders writes in such as manner that I feel I could recognize Archy anywhere. Solving the crime is only part of the fun when reading these books.
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Summary: Witty & entertaining. Archy & Binky make me laugh out loud.
Review: A few months ago I picked up McNally's Trial and read it. I enjoyed it so much, I have now read all the McNally books and look forward to more. Archy and his pals make me laugh out loud as I'm reading. Sanders writes in such as manner that I feel I could recognize Archy anywhere. Solving the crime is only part of the fun when reading these books.
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Summary: I'm addicted and want to meet the author
Review: All of Mr Lawrence's books on McNally have been hard for me to put down. I wish he'd do a book signing in my area.
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Summary: Dead on arrival.
Review: Bloated, tedious, sophomoric. This book might serve as a guide for determined but untalented undergraduates aspiring to write by the word. Sanders' formula evidently pays: start with a workaday plot idea; line up your Roget's, your Bartlett's, and a selection of coffee-table glossies (Gourmet, Travel & Leisure, ...); slip into your turtleneck and tweeds. Then let it flow. Never be satisfied with a straightforward word when a pretentious one is at hand; and, if you know a thing, make sure not only to say it, but also to explain it for the benefit of your simpleminded reader. The author strives pathetically to create a modern-day Lord Peter, but he simply lacks the (dare I say) breeding to make it convincing. This one is a pure waste of time
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Summary: It's a Hardy Boys For Gownups!
Review: I have read three of the "McNally Series" and enjoyed them tremendously. Take them for what they are - a good fun read. Don't expect to be enlightened (although your vocabulary might improve) shocked or deeply engrossed in a serious puzzel. Unashamedly, the plots are as thin as a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mystery but with a healthy dose of Bertie Wooster style. That is half their fun.So do yourself a favour this summer. Find yourself a beautiful sun drenched beach (with lots of pretty girls in bikinies - Archy would approve) bring a few imported beers (or if your in the right mood - a fine bottle of chilled crisp white wine or maybe a thermos of exotic cocktails) sit back and enjoy. Oh also bring some food - after reading about the wonderful meals you will be hungry. I look forward to finding my next "McNally" in my far from home bookstore.
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Summary: It's a Hardy Boys For Gownups!
Review: I have read three of the "McNally Series" and enjoyed them tremendously. Take them for what they are - a good fun read. Don't expect to be enlightened (although your vocabulary might improve) shocked or deeply engrossed in a serious puzzel. Unashamedly, the plots are as thin as a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mystery but with a healthy dose of Bertie Wooster style. That is half their fun. So do yourself a favour this summer. Find yourself a beautiful sun drenched beach (with lots of pretty girls in bikinies - Archy would approve) bring a few imported beers (or if your in the right mood - a fine bottle of chilled crisp white wine or maybe a thermos of exotic cocktails) sit back and enjoy. Oh also bring some food - after reading about the wonderful meals you will be hungry. I look forward to finding my next "McNally" in my far from home bookstore.
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Summary: terrific: amazing ability of "stand-up comedy" and mystery
Review: my first encounter w/ a McNally book. Few thillers or mysteries make me laugh out loud.
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Summary: It's a Hardy Boys For Gownups!
Review: People who enjoyed the stories about Jeeves and Wooster will undoubtedly like the series of books about Archibald "Archy" McNally, the son a a successful attorney. Archy's specialty is carrying out investigations for his father when he is not carrying on with women and hanging out at the Pelican Club. Lawrence Sanders was undoubtedly influenced by P. G. Wodehouse in creating this series, as Archy is a modern day counterpart of Bertie Wooster. The plot of this particular book is somewhat transparent - that ploy of sealed caskets being shipped from one place to another has been used before. However, the story and the characters are entertaining light reading as Archy introduces his erstwhile friend Binky Watrous into the world of private investigations.
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Summary: One of a series of novels about scapegrace Archy McNally
Review: People who enjoyed the stories about Jeeves and Wooster will undoubtedly like the series of books about Archibald "Archy" McNally, the son a a successful attorney. Archy's specialty is carrying out investigations for his father when he is not carrying on with women and hanging out at the Pelican Club. Lawrence Sanders was undoubtedly influenced by P. G. Wodehouse in creating this series, as Archy is a modern day counterpart of Bertie Wooster. The plot of this particular book is somewhat transparent - that ploy of sealed caskets being shipped from one place to another has been used before. However, the story and the characters are entertaining light reading as Archy introduces his erstwhile friend Binky Watrous into the world of private investigations.
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Summary: Throw the Binky away
Review: Perhaps it's because I haven't been in a good mood lately, but this book wasn't up to the McNally series standard. New sidekick Binky Wautrous is annoying and incompetant. Please get rid of him Mr Sanders. The story never engaged me completely either. Who cares about some smuggling shenanigans involving funeral homes?
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