After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for their production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. South Florida’s premier sleuth about town strikes again in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. A delectable combination of high society and high jinks, and featuring some of the most eccentric characters to populate Florida’s Gold Coast, McNally’s Dilemma is as witty and charming as Archy McNally himself. Someone’s lying, and the one person who knows the truth Geoff’s perky playmate has gotten away. When her story doesn’t match Melva’s, which doesn’t match Geoff’s, Archy realizes he does indeed have a dilemma on his hands.
Veronica is no damsel in distress though, and she’s certainly not sorry her stepfather is in the grave. Rumors fly, and some of them may be true. Gallant Archy takes the case and escorts grown up and gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse. It sounds like an open and shut case for McNally & Sons’ Department of Discreet Inquiries until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter, Veronica, from the press and paparazzi. After finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. But it’s not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionnel. Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorn*y tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style. And it proves, once again, that Archy McNally is, as Cosmopolitan described him, ‘as amusing and rich as Dorothy Sayers’ great creation, Lord Peter Wimsey.’
Lawrence Sanders’s latest Palm Beach thriller fairly sizzles with greed, glitz, gals, and gore. Fighting his way through copious deaths and fiendish scams, Archy pieces together elements of a strange and grisly puzzle, including: a sealed letter containing a horrifying secret a nude dancer who knows more than she reveals a missing portrait someone would kill for and a butterfly tattoo in a very private place, which could be the key to the murder spree. But when the artist for whom she posed is killed, McNally’s job takes on a decidedly dangerous turn, and he begins to suspect the demure damsel might be both a poser and a poseur. Hired by a formidable matron to investigate the shadowy bona fides of her bubble headed son’s beloved, Archy is wowed by the enigmatic innamorata’s purity and pulchritude. If larceny is good for the soul, Palm Beach must be confidence heaven so discovers Lawrence Sanders’s sleuth about town Archy McNally in his third boffo baffler, McNally’s Risk. The unbeatable master of suspense returns, in a wickedly wayward case of artists, models, and murder.
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