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Summary: This One's Got More Twists than a Martini Bar...
Review: ...a mucho rich client of McNally and Son, Attorney at Law hires Archy McNally to find out who's been lifting some priceless artifacts from a huge mansion. Among these items is a one of a kind edition of an Edgar Allen Poe novel. As Archy investigates (he goes to chez Forsythe under the pretense that the pater-familias has hired him to catalog his massive library) he finds that everyone in the household is some kinda nut case, except for the youngest member, a little girl named Lucy who is more mature and more lucid than anyone around. Someone tries to kill the one of the ladies of the house and then the pater familias is warned with a note saying "Your Next"...which wouldn't in itself be much of a crime, but when he does winds up dead, everyone in the mansion and the surrounding horse stables becomes a suspect. Except for Archy's new little girl friend, Lucy.Archy bribes most of his informants with dinners, cases of booze and weekends in the Bahamas....to get the info he needs to help the crusty ol' police sargent put the kibosh on the murderer. But Archy also comes dangerouly close to complicating matters with some injudicious bedhoppings. What helps the novel become a fun read is because Archy fancies himself as a gourmand of sorts and he always tells you what he's had for breakfast, lunch and dinner and Archy is a ladies man and he always tells you what his leading ladies--especially his main squeeze, Connie--is looking like when he approaches them. Sanders has managed to put a British styled murder mystery smack in the midst of South Florida...
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Summary: First rate mystery
Review: First in a long line of great mystery novels by Sanders. I really enjoy this setting of this and the following series of books. I can 't wait till the next one comes out. Recommended highly
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Summary: an afternoon promenade of a book
Review: McNally, the title character, is quite a charmer. His pretentions and self-mocking attitudes make him likeable. The plot of this book isn't revolutionary and the end is dissapointinlgly predictable, however, it is still an enjoyable read. The ending doesn't wrap up in a completely neat way, which I wouldn't object to, but the rest of the book (including the last page where McNally says he wanted iot to be more cut and dried) seems to lead to a more solid resolution. All in all, I'd still reccomend this as a light pleasure read, great for beaches and subway rides.
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Summary: A light-hearted superficial romp of a novel.
Review: Once more Lawrence Sanders casts his eye over some odd ball inhabitants of Palm Beach, Florida. Through Archy McNally, a local layabout from a wealthy family, Sanders is again able to play fast and loose with the Queen's English, and display his tastes in cars, clothes, food and wine. This novel is perhaps a touch too clever, and while entertaining, does not build up the story to the extent that the reader can get deeply involved.
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Summary: A tasteless, poorly plotted, written blabblabblab!
Review: Reading this McNally's series was just like you were stopped by an unemployed, drunken senile English Butler in the street. He stopped you and enforced you hear out his tasteless, nonsense adventure stories. When you heard him out patiently, you found that you have idiotically wasted your precious time which might be more productive if could spent in bird watching. This series is like OLD WIVES' TALES, making you feel like living in 19 century with lot of empty whisky bottles littered around you. There was nothing worth reading in this series, my friend, the great L.Sanders has long gone, this one is but a shadow of that great writer
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Summary: Good - but not as great as most McNally books
Review: This book had most of the delicious features of the other McNally books, but was missing something. I guess the killer's motivation was a little weak. Also, some of the juicy details were never wrapped up (e.g., why the nude photo collection?). McNally's case revolves around an eccentric family of nuts. He feels pity for the sane little 8 year old girl, who suffers with bitter parents. The killer was fairly easy to guess, and the show down near the end was dramatic.
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Summary: Good - but not as great as most McNally books
Review: This book had most of the delicious features of the other McNally books, but was missing something. I guess the killer's motivation was a little weak. Also, some of the juicy details were never wrapped up (e.g., why the nude photo collection?). McNally's case revolves around an eccentric family of nuts. He feels pity for the sane little 8 year old girl, who suffers with bitter parents. The killer was fairly easy to guess, and the show down near the end was dramatic.
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Summary: Not great, but still very good
Review: This is the fourth book in the McNally series that I have read and Sanders has crafted a solid mystery. I enjoyed the first two books in the series better (McNALLY'S SECRET and McNALLY's LUCK) because CAPER was fairly predictable as other reviewers have noted. But if you enjoy the series you'll enjoy this book. Nothing outstanding but still solid.
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Summary: Not great, but still very good
Review: This is the fourth book in the McNally series that I have read and Sanders has crafted a solid mystery. I enjoyed the first two books in the series better (McNALLY'S SECRET and McNALLY's LUCK) because CAPER was fairly predictable as other reviewers have noted. But if you enjoy the series you'll enjoy this book. Nothing outstanding but still solid.
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