Book 1

McNally's Secret

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 16 January 1992
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.

Book 2

McNally's Luck

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 12 August 1992

From the Bestselling Author of McNally's Secret

It's hazy, hot and humid in the Palm Beach world of the rich and famous, but charming, sophisticated - and street smart - investigator Archibald McNally keeps his cool, solving discreet cases for a select group of posh clients.

Things start to sizzle when Archy is hired to locate Peaches, a stolen cat owned by a wealthy real estate developer. The case, which Archy expects to be a snap, is suddenly ignited by the tycoon's sultry wife and her stunning sister, a side-trip into the occult, and a series of unlucky events that lead to murder.

Bestselling author Lawrence Sanders introduced Archibald, the intrepid investigator, in McNally's Secret. Now he brings him back to debonair, oh-so-fashionable life in this fast-paced, witty tale of murder.

Book 3

McNally's Risk

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 24 February 1993

A Murderous Maze of Sun-Drenched Scandal

When elegant, drop-dead gorgeous Theodosia Johnson steps ashore in Palm Beach, even the most jaded roving eyes stop to notice. Sophisticated champagne heir Chauncy Wilson Sackville-Hersforth is equally enchanted by this mysterious beauty, but when he proposes marriage to her, Chauncy's mother isn't nearly so impressed.

Archy McNally, the brilliant, blithe-spirited hero of McNally's Luck and McNally's Secret returns to unravel the puzzle surrounding Miss Johnson. However, he too falls under her romantic spell...and bodies begin to appear like uninvited guests at a poolside dinner party.

Shocking, swank, and more fun than a weekend in Palm beach, McNally's Risk is full of sure-fire suspense that only Lawrence Sanders can deliver.

Book 4

Mcnally's Caper

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 26 January 1994
Palm Beach's premier man-about-crime plunges to the perilous depths of high society - in the loopiest Archy McNally thriller yet! If it were a soap opera, it might be called The Young and the Feckless. But McNally's Caper is real-life, real-death family meshugass. The clan in question bears the proud name Forsythe, but the devious saga played out within the fortresslike walls of their baronial estate is far too raw ever to make it to Masterpiece Theatre. Called in by patriarch Griswold Forsythe II - a client of Archy's father, who even the closemouthed senior McNally admits is pretty dull - our happy-go-lucky sleuth commences a covert search to discover which intimate relative is lifting the family valuables piece by piece. Before he solves that puzzle, Archy's in for a sordid rainbow of surprises that gives the lie to the dynasty's colorless repute. First there are the steamy Forsythe females hurling themselves his way. Then the buried scandals that keep bubbling up wherever he looks. But not until the murder of pater-familias do things finally boil over - into a white-hot crucible of corruption that menaces the guilty and the innocent alike. Mixing suspense, sensuality and high jinks with a Cordon Bleu chef's expertise, Lawrence Sanders' McNally's Caper is a thoroughly delectable read.

Book 5

McNally's Trial

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 14 February 1995
The engaging new mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of "McNally's Caper!"

Death is an ugly business.

As an investigator for his father's Palm Beach law firm, Archy McNally has discreetly handled scores of unusual cases for the firm's upscale clientele. But when Sunny Fogarty, the attractive comptroller for Whitcomb Funeral Homes, approaches McNally & Son to investigate an unexplained rise in her company's fortunes, Archy soon finds himself conducting a most peculiar investigation.

It seems that an inordinate amount of the dead bodies handled by the Whitcomb homes are being shipped north for burial. As Archy searches for an explanation, he is sucked into the Whitcomb family's internal power struggles while his relationship with Sunny takes on new steamy dimensions. Confronted on all sides by characters with questionable motives, Archy smells a connection to the seedy side of Palm Beach society, and he must unravel the mystery before the pile of corpses grows any higher.

With a colorful cast of characters and scintillating plot twists, "McNally's Trial" is another rollicking ride from the master of suspense.


Book 6

Mcnally's Puzzle

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 21 February 1996
Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy, elderly widower living in Palm Beach and the owner of a bird store called Parrots Unlimited. And Hiram Gottschalk is convinced his life is in danger. After all, a photo of Hiram with his deceased wife has been slashed, a mass card is found taped inside his closet door, and his pet mynah is discovered strangled - a very dead bird indeed. In despair, Hiram turns to McNally & Son for answers. With his sidekick, Binky Watrous, in place posing as a salesman and cage cleaner in the bird store, Archy feels that his client's life will soon return to order. But Hiram Gottschalk is murdered in his sleep, stabbed through the eyes; his manic-depressive son, Peter, is named the prime suspect; and two clerks from Parrots Unlimited are abducted and their bodies found in the Everglades, both of them shot. It remains for McNally to use every ounce of his skill to put together the pieces of the puzzle - and stay alive in the process.

Book 7

McNally's Gamble

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 12 December 1951
Palm Beach bon vivant and playboy sleuth Archy McNally returns in another tale of love and larceny among the wealthy denizens of south Florida.

Archy lives a life most people only dream about. As Chief of Discreet Inquiries at his father's white-shoe law firm, Archy keeps tabs on the rich and famous while keeping hours only a barfly could love. When well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore is urged to buy a Faberge Imperial egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the investment and enlist Archy's services to put the kibosh on the deal.

As he investigates the bona fides of the bejeweled trinket, mysterious machinations of the siblings, family advisors, and an aged antiques dealer are revealed, and Archy is thrust into a whirling vortex of greed, passion, and murder that even he must fight to rise above.
Mixing drama with highjinks, McNALLY'S GAMBLE is Lawrence Sanders's most delectable offering yet.

Book 8

McNallys Dilemma

by Vincent Lardo

Published 1 December 1999

Book 10

When Sabrina Wright, bestselling author of sumptuous tales of love lost and found, asks Archy McNally's help to find her missing husband, Archy quickly discovers it's not a simple domestic case. Sabrina's husband did not disappear: it was her daughter who ran off and Sabrina sent the girl's stepfather to find her. Both of them seem to have got lost...Gillian Wright fled to Palm Beach when she heard the true story of her birth: that Sabrina had the girl out of wedlock, put her up for adoption, then adopted her. But when local gossips get wind of the story, tongues wag and three different Palm Beach socialites come to Archy to confess their paternity and beg Archy's help to protect them from any scandal. Then Sabrina turns up dead, and Archy must take a chance - and hope to discover which of these gentlemen would kill to keep his secret a

Book 10


Book 11

McNally's Alibi

by Lawrence Sanders and Vincent Lardo

Published 1 July 2002
A mysterious collector, a missing manuscript, and a troika of lovely ladies challenge Archy McNally, Palm Beach's premier man-about-crime, in this newest work by the author of McNally's Chance and McNally's Folly. Abridged.

Book 11

Claudia Lester is a blonde with a problem: she needs someone to give a blackmailer fifty thousand dollars. But when Archy wakes up with a bump on his head both Claudia and the money have disappeared. The other person who wants to find Claudia is Decimus Fortesque, an eccentric Palm Beach character known for his even more eccentric collecting habits. The fifty thousand dollars turned out to be his - and he thinks that Claudia may be in possession of both his money and a long-lost work by Truman Capote. When Fortesque offers to hire him to find Claudia, Archy can't resist - and falls over the first corpse in the case.

Book 12

McNally's Dare

by Vincent Lardo

Published 1 July 2003

Book 13

McNally's Bluff

by Lawrence Sanders and Vincent Lardo

Published 10 January 2004
Secrets, surprises, and at least one dead body come out of the closet in the Palm Beach P.I.'s most twisted case yet.
When self-styled impresario and former human cannonball Matthew Hayes rents a luxury villa on Palm Beach's famed South Ocean Boulevard, the locals roll their eyes. But when he scuttles the traditional backyard accoutrements of swimming pool and tennis court in favor of a grand garden hedge maze modeled after the one at Hampton Court, the South Florida smart set can't wait for their invitations -- to the gala opening of the Amazin' Maze of Matthew Hayes.
The big night arrives and gasps of wonder and delight are replaced by those of horror, as Hayes's ladylove is discovered at the center of the maze, very dead indeed. The authorities are stumped, as Hayes's carnival background gives rise to a number of possible suspects. Or are there other forces -- and more devious minds -- at work? Hayes's flair for the dramatic only complicates a mystery that has more false leads than his Amazin' Maze. It's up to Archy McNally to see through the scam and catch a killer.


McNally's Folly

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 17 July 2000
For poor Archy McNally, there's more drama backstage than onstage and plenty of confusion everywhere as the Palm Beach Community Theatre puts on Arsenic and Old Lace. Lured into the director's chair by the prospect of rubbing shoulders with Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling, Archy finds himself in a real-life murder story when someone takes a sip of prop wine and drops dead.

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


The Palm Beach Community Theatre is putting on a production of "Arsenic and Old Lace", but when an actor dies after taking a sip of prop wine the police are called. In a play filled with murders only Archy McNally can seperate the fact from fiction.

Dream Lover

by Lawrence Sanders

Published 1 November 1986

McNally's Folly

by Vincent Lardo

Published 1 August 2000
South Florida's premiere 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 its 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. While resident grande 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. 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 murders, only Archy can separate the actors from the genuine article, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally's follies.