![]() ![]() ![]() First, he finds a photo of himself and his deceased wife slashed to ribbons then, a Mass card with his name on it is taped inside of his closet door now, someone has wrung the neck of his beloved pet bird. Hiram Gottschalk, owner of the Palm Beach shop Parrots Unlimited, fears for his life. As things heat up, McNally had better watch his back-or he, himself, could end up six feet under.įrom the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally’s feathers are ruffled when a bird store owner is killed. But things take a nasty turn when Griswold is murdered. Who wanted to off the family patriarch-and why? Inside the lavish, baronial estate, McNally’s uncovering some pretty damning dirt, including illegitimate offspring and a resident ghost. Suspects abound, including the sexy Forsythe women who all seem to find McNally irresistible. Griswold Forsythe II wants to know which greedy, conniving relative is making off with the family treasures, including an original Picasso and an irreplaceable Edgar Allan Poe first edition. The Palm Beach sleuth tries to find a thief-and a killer-among a rich, eccentric family, in this New York Times bestseller. Archy McNally, the parttime investigator and fulltime bon vivant,takes on the curious case of a thief with exquisite taste within the eccentric Forsythe family. But who’d want him dead? As McNally tries to smoke out the culprit, he wonders if he’s getting too close to a remorseless killer who’s about to drop the curtain on another victim. Holmes was a self-made millionaire with a genius for betting on pork bellies. She makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater’s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Archy McNally somehow gets roped into directing-and into discreetly investigating who could be blackmailing his star. Life tragically imitates art when Richard Holmes-Darling’s Husband Number Seven-sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party. One of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Desdemona Darling, has come South for the season. When the husband of an actress sips a poisoned potable, Lawrence Sanders’s beloved Palm Beach PI must stage an investigation from his director’s chair. When passion erupts into murder and McNally must dig even deeper to uncover the truth, he unearths a shocking secret that could expose his own family’s skeletons. ![]() McNally’s search takes him into a thickening maze of sex, lies, scandal, and blackmail. Lady Cynthia Horowitz, now on her sixth husband, is a nasty piece of work who lives in a mansion that looks like Gone With the Wind’s Tara transplanted to southern Florida. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally’s latest case. A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing from a high-society matron’s wall safe. Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach’s power elite. As McNally attempts to find the truth amidst all the lies, his investigation must include a look into the past-and a tragedy that the world will never forget.įirst in the series starring the sleuthing Palm Beach playboy from the #1 New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author. Before he can sort out his private life, blackmail enters the picture. Now she wants McNally to do her a favor: Keep the paparazzi away from her daughter, Veronica. Playing babysitter to the beautiful Veronica and remaining faithful to his fiancée prove beyond McNally’s capabilities. The killer, twice-married socialite Melva Williams, confesses to offing her cheating spouse in a moment of passion. For Archy McNally, private investigator to the rich and infamous, the case seems open and shut. The Palm Beach tennis season starts off with a bang when a pro is shot by his wife after she catches him with another woman. New York Times bestseller: A mystery “full of twists and turns” set among the elite society of Palm Beach (Library Journal). ![]() As he lays a trap that could be catnip for the killer, he is faced with the reality that felines may have nine lives but he has only one. Uncovering a chilling connection between the two cases sends McNally into a psychological game of cat and mouse. But, as McNally knows, things are rarely as simple as they seem. Soon, the case of the missing Peaches, a foul-tempered, overweight Persian, morphs into the murder of a prominent Palm Beach woman. His latest assignment? Solve a simple catnapping. In his off hours, he works as a part-time investigator for his father’s venerable law firm. From the #1 New York Times–bestselling author: Florida PI Archy McNally takes on a deceptively simply case of pet abduction, where bad luck can be deadly.Īrchy McNally enjoys sipping late-night port with his girlfriend of the moment and tooling across southern Florida in his red Miata sports car. ![]()
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