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McNally's Files

Lawrence Sanders

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

MCNALLY'S "TRICKSTER"... 1 out of 5 stars.
39 of 51 people found this review helpful.

I APPARENTLY DID NOT READ THE DESCRIPTION OF THIS BOOK AS WELL AS I SHOULD
HAVE. SHAME ON ME. I HAVE ALL OF THE MCNALLY BOOKS AND WHEN I SAW THIS
TITLE THOUGHT...."UMMM, I DON'T HAVE THAT ONE ON MY LIST??" WHEN I
RECEIVED IT, I WAS SURPRISED THAT IT WAS A COMPILATION OF THREE BOOKS I
HAD ALREADY RECEIVED/READ AND WAS DISAPPOINTED I HAD NOT READ THE REVIEW
BETTER. I AM DONATING IT TO MY LIBRARY.

3 Great Novels in 1 Book 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This is a great collection of the first three McNally investigations in one nice, inexpensive edition. Please disregard the one star review below. They are just bitter because they didn't do the proper investigation into this book before purchasing it. Archy McNally would be ashamed. Buy this. Read this. Enjoy this. I known you will.

Misleading Advertising? 1 out of 5 stars.
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I too bought this book assuming it was a previously unreleased McNally story. I already have all of the McNally books. In fact, looking at the website now, the only mention that it is a collection is in the customer reviews. Having read all of the other books and enjoyed them, I didn't need to read the reviews. I'm feeling a bit ripped off!

The First Deadly Sin (The Deadly Sins Novels)

Lawrence Sanders

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If You Love Character Driven... 5 out of 5 stars.
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You'll love the writing of Lawrence Sanders. I first read "The First Deadly Sin" years ago, and have retrieved it for a good read more than once. Lawrence Sanders paints vivid portraits of his central characters, portraits so intimate and full of personal detail that you begin to form a relationship with the characters as you're reading. I was captivated by Edward Delaney, though I can't imagine casting Frank Sinatra in the part for the film. Sinatra aside, the character of Delaney is believable, complex, full of sagely wisdom and just plain likeable. His obsession with 'the' perfect sandwich was delicious. Sanders intricately weaves the plot amongst the character development, never slowing the pace for an instant. Not for those with a short attention span, rather for readers who love to savor every word.

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One of the most popular suspense novels of all time. Someone is stalking New York's high-class neighborhoods-and it's up to Captain Ed Delaney to find meaning in a killer's gruesome madness.

McNally's Puzzle (Archy McNally)

Lawrence Sanders

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The Parrot Also Rises, Against A Brilliant Yellow Sun? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Usually I know why a book keeps me reading; I know exactly what the capture cons are. In the case of McNALLY's PUZZLE, I kept reading with my own puzzle to saw with a jig. It had something to do with a jazzy writing rhythm and with the tightly focused, First-person-Narrative pushing Archy's socially elite slang.

I found myself wondering where I'd left my dictionary; didn't want to lose the frequent opportunities to learn new words. Yet, I realized that some of the expressions Archy chewed and spewed with polished abandon were not only beyond my repertoire, they wouldn't be found in a published "literary academy" of American English. Whom does one approach for information on colloquialisms and slang which slip-slides around in socially superior swamps causing nose-in-the air neck kinks?

The book continued to draw me in, in spite of the mild irritation at Archy's dynamically driven dialogue and sensual soliloquy, doused with words I somewhat grasped in context, phrases which nudged me forward as I felt I should stop reading to research, and really digest every nuance of prose ... maybe that's part of the draw. Sanders does have a knack for creating a cajoling rhythm which carries me along, whispering to let go of whiffs of undone details as I fancy forward, wondering what Archy will say and do next.

I'm in Archy's mind, even if it is a dramatic dichotomy to my own sloppy thoughts. Archy, even if his speaking patterns irritate me, is feisty-foot-dragging fun to be with.

McNALLY'S PUZZLE is my first taste of this Lawrence Sanders series. I was initially brought to it by readers' complaints about Archy's obsession with food, and Lawrence's including every tasty bite in the plot. In fiction I seek stimulation of the senses, though most often my moods prefer to go beyond and before the abundantly available ploys of the shock syndrome, and gregariously graphic sex. What else is there but solitary, tongue-in-teeth tangos with the manna of the gods? Well, yeah, there are mountains and streams, street lamps and bed springs ... these are a few of my favorite things ... huh?

For me, the statement, "Archy bites off a big piece of bread," might work up a hint of saliva. That's what I usually get in a work of food fiction, when I'm lucky. But, the descriptive luxury of, "His teeth sink into the delicate texture of a soft, yeasty, French baguette, edged by the crunch of a crusty cover," could get a stomach growl out of a full balloon. That's how I write the description of taking a bite of bread. I could use much more of that brand of sensual prose in my escape fiction (in my reading of it, that is; my writing's usually saturated with appeals to the senses). Yet, I'm not puzzled about the natural tendency of some readers to have their tongues in their toes (shoes), wanting to go get ON with the fancy footwork.

It is the rhythm of the syntax, though; it is. And the tight focus on Archy. That is what kept me reading long enough to get beyond my minimal irritation at the pondering push of the word dance.

Once the rhythm had me going, and going, and picking up the book each time I had the time to read, I began being led by the nose, as well as the tongue, into the mystery developing with the precise timing of a master at a modern dance studio.

Then the pace picked up slightly, plateau-ed, picked up a little more, and so on, to a perfect conclusion. That's all I'll say about that, not wanting to sing the secrets, or sling them around.

Sanders exposed true confidence as an author in the pacing pauses of Archy's daily routines in this novel and especially in the succinct, crisp style of the picked up dance of denouement. I laughed out loud in cheering glee several times during the final five chapters. Archy's father's heated question to a brouhaha which brought him out of his night sanctuary was classic, heart-healing humor.

Okay. I see why Archy lives on and on, even though Sanders now has wings and flies with exotic birds of paradise, bless his heart and soul.

Still have another puzzle, though. My copy of this novel, an early version hardback, has the jacket with a gorgeously glamorous, multi-colored parrot glossed against a bright yellow sun. During one of my first few reading surges, I had stopped for a solitary lunch at a fun café near a boss bookstore, in Hotchkiss, Colorado. Lifting spectacles up on my nose, I noticed that the decor at my booth included a large, fashionably-framed print of a parrot, a twin to the one on my book jacket. In fact, the restaurant was plush with parrot paraphernalia, parroting the swampy mystique of Palm Beach, sister to New Orleans in oozing mysterious muchies. Was this an omen of some sort? A message from the miasma of muses meandering off Florida's Gold Coast? Splash!

Okay. No puzzle. Synchronicity. Jung.

Thanks, Sanders, for the satisfyingly snippy side-trip to Florida. I really don't know if I like your style, exactly, yet it's puzzlingly appealing. I have a feeling I'll one day be able to honestly say, "I do like your style!" Already, I admire and enjoy it. And, I like your subtle development of Archy, all the way through the book, especially the warm, simple, real way you enhanced the exchanges between Archy and his new Terrier, Hobo. Love the way this spirited canine was brought into the family.

I'll be back! Bank on it. I won't spit in the eye of the parrot who feeds my soul!

I'll bow to a master and say thanks,

Linda G. Shelnutt
(Where's my dictionary ... oh ... yeah ... it's on the kitchen table.)

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Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower, the owner of a bird store called Parrots Unlimited--and a man desperate to save himself from an unknown stalker. He hires 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 in McNally's Puzzle.

The Second Deadly Sin

Lawrence Sanders

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Pretty dern good 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Book 2 in the "Heather reads crime novels" series! And this was a much better experience than my first Patricia Cornwell book. While Patricia Cornwell does forensic mysteries, this one is an old-school whodunit. The characters were well written, and the plot believable. Best of all, unlike Cornwell, I didn't figure out the culprit before the Edward X. Delaney did. And that, my friends, is the mark of a good crime novel.

So a famous New York artist is murdered, and everybody has a motive, opportunity, and will. There is not too much action, it is basically just a story of a detective on the hunt. But it was hard for me to put down, all the same.

One amusing sidenote. This book was obviously written pre-women's lib. The only women are dutiful wives who relish their role. When Delaney makes a comment about how his alcoholic partner goes home to leftovers, his wife immediately sets up a blinddate with her friend...every man needs a warm meal from a sacrificing woman, even alcoholics! Anyway, this was not annoying, just funny. I doubt Sanders would attract too much of a female audience with characters like that these days.

Good read.

Editorial Review:

First time in a trade edition-- Lawrence Sanders's masterpiece, The 1st Deadly Sin, set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, retired Captain Ed Delaney returns to a distinctly urban milieu of paranoia and impulsive violence to solve a brutal murder that shocks New York's unshockable art world.

The victim is Victor Maitland. Long-considered one of the world's greatest artists, he excelled in capturing the beauty of life on canvas. In private, he destroyed whomever he pleased: his wife, his son, his mistress, his dearest friends and family. Fittingly, Maitland has paid for his sins. But in a world where self-delusion is rewarded, where greed triumphs, and where murder is just another art, who else will pay the price?

Lawrence Sanders McNally's Chance (Archy McNally)

Vincent Lardo, Lawrence Sanders

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Not a True Archy McNally Book 1 out of 5 stars.
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I have very mixed feelings about this book. Although it was an enjoyable read, I think it very unfair to call this an Archy McNally book. So many of our favorite traps that create the mood were missing-- Archy rarely wrote in his diary; he never went for an ocean swim; he did not wear berets or tassled pink loafers; he did not settle down in the evening in a kimono for a marc and a recording of Ella Fitzgerald; he did not sing while he drove; the vivid descriptions of food and clothing were missing; the usual flirting between Archy and Mrs. Trelawny became snide insults; and I could go on and on. In the past women have always flocked to Archy, but here his pursuit of Bianca seemed lecherous. He was nasty to Binky, who in the past Archy has affectionately tolerated. Also I found it annoying the way Mr. Lardo felt it necessary to casually mention things from other books- Dr. Gussie Pearlberg, Hobo-- that had no place here, but show that Mr. Lardo has read the other books. The story was interesting, but the end was a cop out. I had to re-read the last 20 pages twice because it didn't make sense. This book is in no way an Archy McNally novel. I suggest Mr. Lardo re-read all the Lawrence Sanders' Archy novels in one sitting and then try again.

Editorial Review:

When bestselling romance author Sabrina Wright asks for Archy McNally's help in finding her missing husband, Archy is quick to write it off as a simple domestic case. But this one's a page-turner of the first order: Sabrina's daughter ran off, she sent her husband to find her, and now they're both missing in action.

If only Sabrina hadn't told her adopted daughter that she really is her natural mother. That sent daughter looking for father, a Palm Beach blueblood who paid Sabrina handsomely for his anonymity. So it's up to Archy to find the fugitive family members before local gossips get wind of the story-and start pointing fingers at some of Palm Beach's most prestigious names.

McNally's Dilemma: (Archy McNally Novels)

Lawrence Sanders, Vincent Lardo

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Editorial Review:

Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.

Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. 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. After finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. 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. Gallant Archy takes the case -- and escorts grown-up and gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse. Rumors fly, and some of them may be true.

Veronica is no damsel in distress though, and she's certainly not sorry her stepfather is in the grave. 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. Someone's lying, and the one person who knows the truth -- Geoff's perky playmate -- has gotten away.

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.

Lawrence Sanders: Three Complete Novels

Lawrence Sanders

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Edward X. Delaney is the Best! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I actually own all four of the "Deadly Sins" books in paperback, but the stories are among my alltime favorites. Sanders should abandon McNally, a poor read at best, and get back to Edward X. Delaney -- he's my favorite character of all mystery writers' characters.

A Feast of Delaney 4 out of 5 stars.
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When it comes to sheer ability to turn a phrase, Lawrence Sanders has few rivals and possibly no equals. His skill with a typewriter allowed him to elevate routine mystery stories, P.I. procedurals, and suspense novels into art. And nowhere was his art better showcased than in DEADLY SIN books - by no means his most famous, but arguably his best and most beloved series. And ¾ of that series - the first three installments, are presented here in one volume. Not a bad catch.

The DEADLY SIN books were different from each other in style, but all centered around the same hero - Edward X. Delaney: devoted husband, outstanding former detective and obsessive sandwich-eater. Delaney, whose career arc from Manhattan precinct captain to unpaid private sleuth is described over the course of the books, is one of those rare fictional characters who seems more "real" to the reader than many real-life people. Drawn with great skill by Sanders, Delaney - whose nickname is "Iron B*lls" - is remarkable not because of his brilliance, his skill with his fists or his personal eccentricities, but because he's stubborn as a mule and as tough as an old boot. The big, gray-haired Irishman in the Homburg knows only one way to crack a case: by pounding his flat feet to the pavement and dogging suspects until something shakes loose. All he asks in return are good booze and the occasional triple-decker sandwich.

Delaney's story is simple. He used to be the Chief of Detectives in New York, but quit over the "political b.s." that came with the job. Now restlessly retired, he's occasionally tapped by his former mentor, Ivar "the Admiral" Thorsen to crack hitherto uncrackable cases, by any means - and whatever methods - are necessary.

THE FIRST DEADLY SIN is the story of a serial killer (and no, don't roll your eyes - this novel happens to be one of the first, if not the first, serial killer story) named Daniel Blank. Simply put, Blank is the original "American Psycho" - handsome, wealthy, urbane, and a complete psychopath. His kick? Murdering complete strangers on the street with an ice-axe. When the NYPDs investigation goes cold, Captain Delaney is brought to run the politically-charged case, and has to juggle ethics, politics, and a terminal wife while he does it. (Note: NOT a spoiler)

THE SECOND DEADLY SIN is a classic whodunnit. When the brilliant but notoriously nasty artist Victor Maintland gets stabbed to death in his Manhattan studio, the newly-retired Delaney and his alcoholic sidekick Abner Boone have to wade into territory as alien as the moon and just as nasty as the meanest New York street - the world of "high end art." But the "routine" assignment gets personal when the desperate killer elects to go after Delaney's family.

THE THIRD DEADLY SIN is another serial killer tale. The "Hotel Ripper" is leaving a trail of hacked-into-chum corpses in the swankier New York hotels, and wreaking havoc with the Big Apple's vital tourist industry. With the investigation gone as cold as dry ice, Thorsen taps Delaney to warm it up. The question is, can an old-fashioned curmdgeon of a detective accept the fact that a vicious murderer who has outwitted the NYPD for months is a 126 pound woman young enough to be his daughter? (Also not a spoiler).

Sanders' stories are very much a part of the era he wrote in - the 70s and early 80s, and some readers may find the SIN books a bit dated. Forensic science and psychological profiling are in their infancy here, and a lot of the social issues which are hotly debated amongst the characters - equal rights for women, for example - seem a bit ridiculous in retrospect. (Delaney is very impressed with "newfangled" electronic hotel keys, which have been standard since I was a kid; his wife Monica gets faint at the verbal description of a crime scene...wonder how she'd like "CSI".) And like a lot of prolific novelists, Sanders often resorted to recycling dialogue or using stock characters. But these flaws have their upside. The reader gets a beautiful snapshot of the "old" New York, where cops with Irish accents pounded beats dressed in big blue tent coats, discos blasted terrible dance music all night, and would-be John Travoltas weilded gold coke spoons.

To sum up: what's presented here is not just a trio of enjoyable mysteries and suspense novels, but an opportunity for the modern reader to acquaint himself with one of the most enjoyable sleuths in detective fiction.

Editorial Review:

Three novels of suspense--The First Deadly Sin, The Second Deadly Sin, and The Third Deadly Sin--appear in a single, omnibus edition.

McNally's Folly

Lawrence Sanders, Vincent Lardo

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Editorial Review:

South Florida's premier sleuth-about-town strikes again--in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn.

When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for their production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. And while resident grand dame Lady Cynthia Horowitz wants a little of the spotlight to fall on her latest live-in-hunk, Buzz Carr, she has no intention of letting Buzz rehearse all day with the actress who, like Lady C, has made marriage a cottage industry.

For poor Archy, there's more drama backstage than onstage and plenty of confusion everywhere, especially with the fuzzy-headed Binky Watrous serving as stage manager. But when an actor takes a sip of prop wine and drops dead, the Palm Beach police suddenly take a special interest in the local theater scene.

In a play filled with murderers, only Archy can separate the actors from the genuine article, clear Binky, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally's follies.

McNally's Secret (Archy McNally Novels)

Lawrence Sanders

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A pleasurable romp with a pleasurable chap! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Lawrence Sanders' first Archibald McNally novel is much like Arhcy's mother, pleasingly plump and full of delight! Archy is part of McNally & Son Attorney-At-Law, notice the word 'attorney' is singular, not plural. That's because Archy is not a lawyer, though he did go to law school. But he got kicked out. We won't go into that unpleastantness, however.
Dear, dear Archy heads a department of his father's firm called "Discreet Inquiries", he heads it because he's the only person in that particular department. Archy is asked to make some "discreet inquiries" into the disappearance in rich-and-randy Lady Cynthia Horowitz's valuable Inverted Jenny stamps. They could be worth upwards of a cool half a mil. Archy has several suspects, including but not limited to, the Smythes (whom are Lady C's son and wife), Lacy C's daughter Gina Stanescu, including Lady C's other son and wife. And her dear friend the very much gay Angus Wolfson, Lady C's chaffeur and and his girlfriend. But more and more questions arise, like: why is Lady C costantly leaving in her bronze-colored Jag and not telling her social secretary where she's going? Is Wolfson and Lady C's chaffeur having an affair? And what about Archy's personal life? Will the beautiful and astute Jennifer Towley go back to her husband or stick with Archy? One never knows, does one?

Editorial Review:

When detective Archy McNally is called to retrieve a set of rare stamps known as "Inverted Jennies" from one of Palm Beach's wealthiest and most curvaceous matrons, he unexpectedly becomes entangled in something far more dangerous. 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.

McNally's Caper (Archy McNally Novels)

Lawrence Sanders

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

an afternoon promenade of a book 3 out of 5 stars.
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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.

McNally is one of the best! 5 out of 5 stars.
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One of the rare instances when Archie doesn't do what he is supposed to do. Extremely entertaining and funny as ususal. My husband and I enjoy listening to Sanders books on McNally and we have learned to carry a dictionary with us to figure out what some of the obscure words mean. Well worth the money spent on it.

Editorial Review:

In a low-down, high-society caper, sleuth Archie McNally investigates a family that is as mysterious as the House of Usher--and twice as twisted. By the author of McNally's Puzzle. Reissue."