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Cargando... McNally's Risk (1993)por Lawrence Sanders
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InscrÃbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. For those who like this sort of thing, this is the sort of thing they like. I certainly do. A friend recommended the McNally series when I told her that I was in dire need of purely escapist reading, and it has filled the bill. This third episode starts off with Archie undertaking an investigation of someone's undesirable daughter-in-law-to-be, but soon evolves into a twisted tail of murder, mayhem and eventual heroics on Archie's part. Much of the fun in this series is observing the gradual unfolding of Archie's distinctly eccentric personality: this is NOT your usual PI hero. Archie is the son of a wealthy Palm Beach lawyer, but is not a lawyer himself, having been kicked out of Yale Law for streaking. Instead, he works as the "Discreet Enquiries" branch of Dad's law firm, said discreet enquiries involving the rich and respected of Palm Beach. He lives happily with Mum and Dad, untroubled by his lack of worldly success, and with no visible ambition to change anything. He loves the ladies, one in particular, but ends up following a maxim from "Finian's Rainbow" -- 'when I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.' He loves food, and clothes, and his red Miata, and is a delight, particularly when he waxes a tad (only temporarily) melancholy. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
Pertenece a las seriesArchy McNally (3) Contenido enDistinciones
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HTML: A seductive socialite entangles a Palm Beach sleuth in a viper's nest of lust and larceny in this New York Times bestseller. Checking out the background of a wealthy client's prospective daughter-in-law should be easy money for Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNallyâ??until people around gorgeous socialite Theodosia Johnson start being killed off at an alarming rate. The first to die is Theodosia's portrait painter, who gets his throat slashed. Next, a blackmailing stripper ends up with a bullet in her head. McNally must expose the killer, but it's Theodosia, herself, who turns out to be the biggest mystery of all. When she sets out to seduce McNally, he isn't sure whether he's being played, so he orchestrates his own scam to uncover the truth. If his scheme backfires, it could cost the dapper detective his livelihoodâ??and his life No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is the raciest of the first three novels. Archy does wind up in bed with Theodosia (and other ladies) on several occasions. The sheer quantity is enough to make it racy -- Archy is never one to go overboard on the details. This may explain why my teenage self was able to read it without really noticing. My younger self also did not notice a blink-and-you'll-miss-it reference to David Copperfield that had me nearly laughing out loud, and a reference to the Al Jolson song "I'm Sitting on Top of the World" that had me immediately humming the Proclaimers song "I'm On My Way". These references gave the book an extra half-star. The plot itself is fairly predictable, and Archy has eyeroll-inducing double standards with regard to open relationships, but the comfort of the familiar characters and the hit of nostalgia made this an enjoyable book to read on the bus. ( )