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While investigating a wealthy widow's possible purchase of an Imperial Faberge+a7 egg, the strange behavior of family advisors, her children, and an aged antiques dealer plunges Archy McNally into a mess of greed, passion, and murder. 200,000 first printing. $200,000 ad/promo.
- Sales Rank: #565187 in Books
- Brand: Putnam
- Published on: 1997-03-31
- Released on: 1997-03-31
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.24" h x 1.27" w x 9.32" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 307 pages
- Great product!
Amazon.com Review
Archy McNally, the hero of Lawrence Sander's latest whodunit McNally's Gamble is a throwback to an earlier, more gracious age. He lives well, dresses well, and keeps hours that Dashiell Hammet's "Thin Man," Nick Charles, would approve of. When not wining, dining, or driving his fire-engine red Miata around Palm Beach, Archy keeps discreet tabs on the wealthy clients of his father's law firm. Then one day, Edythe Westmore, a well-to-do widow, considers buying a Fabergé Imperial Egg and all hell breaks loose. Her children are displeased, her lawyer (Archy's father) is concerned, and Archy is up to his neck in intrigue.
Sanders writes a serviceable mystery, but the real pleasure in McNally's Gamble is Archy. Imagine Bertie Wooster as a detective, or Lord Peter Wimsey a Floridian, and you'll have some idea of Archy. Though he describes himself as "a frivolous scatterbrain," he has enough discipline to solve the case and, by the end, land the girl, as well.
From Library Journal
Sanders's venerable creation, playboy sleuth Archy McNally, finds yet more greed, envy, and murder among Florida's rich and famous-and all because of the Faberge Imperial egg that, much to her children's consternation, the widowed Edythe Westmore would like to buy.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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In his latest novel, Lawrence Sanders presents another comic whodunit featuring Archy McNally, the foppish but likable head of "discreet inquiries" at his father's law firm in Palm Beach, Fla.... Mr. Sanders overdoes the jokes, making Archy's comments a bit too cute. But more often the witticisms are pitched just right. Mr. Sanders clearly delights in playing up the bumbling spoof aspects of this detective yarn, especially during its climactic but unavoidably funny denouement. -- The New York Times Book Review, Paula Friedman
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Another book in the Archie McNally Series
By Fred Camfield
This is another book about Archie McNally, a modern day Bertie Wooster. I personally did not think this book was as good as some of the previous books, but possibly I have just grown tired of some of the characters. The lead-in is somewhat tedious as the plot develops slowly. This story reminds me of talking to someone who has trouble getting to the point, i.e., the person you try to avoid at a party. Sanders reuses a ploy used in a previous book, a shady investment advisor, although in this case it has a new twist. The book is written in first person and he seems to fill in a lot of space with minute details about the narrator. The second half of the book develops at a faster pace, with less of the excruciating detail of what type of jam Archie uses on his toast, and it becomes a more readable book, but only after one has plowed through the first half.
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Last of the original fun Sanders' series about a foppish private eye
By Jerry Bull
Sanders’ McNally series was favorite reading years ago – even the continuations by author Vincent Pardo were fun entries in this set about a foppish private eye to mostly a wealthy clientele. What McNally was wearing or what parties he was attending got as much ink as the mystery in some cases, so these were all fairly lighthearted novels, of which “Gamble” was the seventh and last of the originals.
The plot as such was about a seemingly shady investment advisor who is trying to convince a wealthy patron of the McNally law firm to invest half a million dollars on a Faberge egg (sight unseen). Our hero is asked to discreetly determine the advisor’s bonafides, and it soon becomes apparent he’s a scam artist. Proving that is another matter, although the murder of an antiques dealer that seems to be in cahoots with the man helped moved things along. Naturally, all works out well in the end.
We don’t know how we missed this book first time around having completed the entire 16-book set, but it was great fun revisiting McNally’s light adventures, despite the sometimes tiring descriptions of his lunch choices, or his attire of the day. But predictable entertainment is always a welcome diversion.
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Silver Ghost Rolls In Faberge Egg. Roll The Dice
By Linda G. Shelnutt
This one opened with a fast-moving, jazzy rescue of a kidnaped child, capturing me with Archy's warmth to the victim's father, and the hint of a crime to come which was billed to be more heinous than a child kidnaping.
Following quickly on the heals of the rescue, I settled into the main plot, riding along with Archy's loving machinations in prep for his father's birthday dinner, after which the family cocktail hour sported the pater's introduction to Archy of his new assignment. The mater was invited into the act by a request from her husband to describe how her friend and contemporary, Edythe Westmore, a client of the McNally law firm, seemed to have been taken in by a flimflam financial advisor with egg on his agenda, which would eventually be on his face, if justice prevailed and Archy's Discrete Investigations got a clue.
No unsettling, Gothic castle with Adams family cast offs in this one. Whereas McNally's CAPER (see my previous review on that devious delight) captured like a dark, luxuriously rich ale, GAMBLE captured with quality champagne easing the pain of a soured budget diminishing in a cash flop (executed by the financial wizard fop).
Archy fizzed nicely through this plot with just the right amount of bubble and bounce, keeping the light hearted intrigue moving until the enigma-of-the-egg enhanced entertainment to arrive at an all time high in this series.
Sanders easily cajoled me into feeling quite a bit of empathy for Walter, who stood the most to lose if his mother, Edythe-of-the-egg-contemplations, continued translating her T-Bills into the devious dead ends devised by, was it Felix Katz or Frederick Clemens who was actually running the condo-based show of the cash con. Walter was established as a thwarted genius in uncovering bipedal beginnings of hominoid critters, through dirt-churning in Africa. He had lost his bases of funding for the necessary continuation of African adventures, and had turned to Mommie Dearest for replenishment and extension of his research there. But Edythe was more impressed with her slick investment-aid-and-abettor's egg, than her son's upturning more dirt around the origins of knuckles lifting up into "sandwiches" instead of dredging, hit-and-miss among rotted leaves on the ground floors of primitive jungles.
Based on the syntax and word choice of my previous sentence, I've sentenced myself by the crime of having indulged in too long of a tour of Archy's series. Be warned: The way Archy talks rubs off. In any case, isn't Palm Beach just another version of Africa, same ole with The Pelican Club and clusters of mansions steaming up the causes of civilization? Of course when comparing Palm Beach to Africa, we all rise a few levels from nests of vipers to first-class cons and prettier palms. Or was that rise a Dante descent in disguise? (Don't get me wrong, here; Sanders has cured me into a Palm Beach fan.)
One of Archy's enduring and endearing characters, the old, moldy, Antique shop owner, Sydney Smythe warmed his way into my heart in this one, worming in through a few choice words from Sanders describing Mr. Smythe's actions and reactions to Archy's interjections. It's amazing how much empathy for a character Sanders develops with light, limited touches of syntax, especially in contrast to the heavyweight, plethora of mouth-fulls he pours through Archy's mug.
Given the entertaining way Archie dances his way through this plot labyrinth and its resolution, if GAMBLE becomes a movie, it may have to be billed as a complexly delightful musical, no con intended.
I particularly enjoyed the tongue-in-cheek interjection of the klutz criminals from Boston (Larry, Moe, and Curly, reduced, cloned and given aliases). Was this an all-in-fun, missing-cross-link reference to Boston based Spenser's gang?
Spenser and Archy couldn't have more divergent styles, yet I enjoy both (see my reviews on Parker's Spenser, too). As their fans know, what these characters' authors have in common is an uncommon skill with syntax; they make words fly and dance with the rhythm of sun. Unadulterated or shrouded in clouds, the sun keeps pace with the effervescence of life, captured by authors at one with their craft.
In the Spirit-of-Fun, may we forever linger in Archy's finesse and enigmas,
Linda G. Shelnutt
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