McNally's Bluff - Hardcover

Vincent Lardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0399151893 ISBN 13: 9780399151897

Publisher: Putnam Adult, 2004

Synopsis

When the wife of a former carnival performer is found murdered at the center of her husband's newly constructed garden maze, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds the case complicated by the performer's dramatic personality. 125,000 first printing.

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than thirty-five bestsellers, including the original McNally novels.

Vincent Lardo is the author of The Hampton Affair and The Hampton Connection, as well as five McNally novels.

From Publishers Weekly:

This wacky, waggish whodunit is the sixth McNally title under the able authorship of novelist Lardo (The Hampton Affair), who took up the reins from the late Lawrence Sanders with 1999's McNally's Dilemma. When Archy is invited to attend the gala unveiling of an English hedge maze at the Palm Beach home of Amazin' Matthew Hayes—an ex-human cannonball turned carnival impresario (5'4" in heels) married to Marvelous Marlena Marvel, a bosomy sideshow hootchy-cootchy (6'2" in socks)—our hero is flabbergasted to find Marlena dead at the center of the maze. The boorish Hayes hires Archy to investigate his wife's bizarre murder; Archy is also employed by his attorney father, who has recently been consulted by one of the guests at the unveiling about the matter of a contested will. Black-sheep Laddy Taylor is hoping to relieve Carolyn, his 40-something, widowed stepmother, of his father's loot. With a gay gossip columnist, a young bisexual fortune-hunter, a fast-food heiress and her philandering hubby, an ex-caddy turned TV reporter, a husband/wife TV talk show team, and the sexy housemaid heading a list of suspects as colorful as the boutiques along Worth Avenue, snide, irrepressible Archy sets to work unraveling this baffling case. Red herrings proliferate, and legions of adoring McNally faithful will be left shouting, "Bravo! Encore!"
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About this edition

• Publisher: Putnam Adult
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0399151893
• ISBN 13: 9780399151897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320