I wanted to relive those moments of pure joy and entertainment by gaining into my possession all the McNally's ever written. When Archy McNally went for his daily evening swim in the sea, I felt rejuvenated and when he jotted his observations at bed time I felt I had done the needful. A world in which I had to often expand my vocabulary to appreciate the author's skill at detailing the mundane with so much vivre and style that I could not help but look at my meals as a drab affair later. Where a certain private investigator worked for his father conducting discreet inquiries for the rich and the famous. As a survivor in the stressful corporate world, I yearned to go back to that world of Palm Beach in Florida before technology took over our lives.
#Archy mcnally book series series
I had devoured some of the top McNally's series that made an indelible impression on me in my younger years. It isn’t one where you are given enough to solve the case.īook 8 will be the furthest that I go in this series, but you may feel different. Don’t feel bad if you can’t guess the guilty party. This is nowhere more clear than in his love life which hardly rings true to the non-introspective rascal that we have come to expect. The problem is that Archy is not quite Archy. The book has a decent plot that hits all the aspects of Archy’s character noted above. It’s only on the back of the title page in its tiniest print that Putnam’s Sons reveal that this was published a year after Sanders’ death with Vincent Lardo chosen to carry on in his place. This is the eighth book in Sanders’ series, or at least the first edition that I picked up at the used bookstore would have you believe. He is vain often, superficial a social butterfly a cad a devotee of the pursuit of the opposite sex and, less than truthful in many of his relationships.
What we derive are laughs, knowing smiles, a intricate plot with memorable characters and (surprisingly) empathy for Archy despite the following: Sanders successfully walks a very fine line between insipid details (of food, clothing, wine, cars, etc.) and outright burlesque. Father McNally is head of a local law firm and the son, Archy, a Yale failure, is responsible for the firm's “discreet inquiries.”Įducated at the proper Ivy League schools, the McNally family fits in as the well-to-do vassals of the Palm Beach nobility.
This is where McNally & Son have chosen to serve their clientele. Then, there was still a lot of the old money around and the need to fit in to a society that those recently rich could only aspire to. Let's go back about a quarter of a century to THAT Palm Beach, Florida - The one that Donald Trump was so anxious to be accepted into.
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