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Palm Beach private detective Archy McNally is hired by the wealthy owner of a bird store to investigate threats against his life, but the case soon becomes complicated by the murder of McNally's client and the kidnapping-killings of two store clerks. 175,000 first printing. $120,000 ad/promo.
- Sales Rank: #1134936 in Books
- Brand: Putnam
- Published on: 1996-01-01
- Released on: 1996-02-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.30" h x 1.29" w x 6.08" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 311 pages
- Great product!
Amazon.com Review
Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower, the owner of a bird store called Parrots Unlimited--and a man desperate to save himself from an unknown stalker. He hires McNally, who is convinced he'll soon return his client's life to order--but then Gottschalk is stabbed in his sleep, and two of his clerks are abducted and killed in the Everglades. It takes all McNally's skill to put together the pieces in McNally's Puzzle.
From Library Journal
Veteran Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally puzzles over the death of a bird store owner in this latest by the prolific author of 20 best sellers.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
About the Author
Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than twenty-two bestsellers.
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Five Stars
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Excellent!
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Hilarious Investigation by Binky Watrous on Archy's Behalf
By Donald Mitchell
If you've read the Archy McNally books, you know he has a slightly daft friend who does bird calls, Binky Watrous. In this wonderful installment, Binky goes undercover at a bird store called Parrots Unlimited to find out who is threatening the store's owner, Hiram Gottschalk. Sancho Panza is a motivational consultant compared to Binky, and the complications are hilarious. You'll laugh until it hurts!
Before long, bodies are piling up in all directions. Who did it?
Here's a clue. The book's cover has a parrot on it. If you pay attention to the parrot, you'll get some important leads on who the guilty parties are.
Archy McNally is at his usual prissy best, more concerned about his wardrobe than the mystery. The ladies find him irresistible, and he feels obliged to help out. This gets him into trouble, as usual, with his main squeeze, Connie.
The actual plot is full despicable double-dealing. You'll be glad when the bad guys get it.
Great fun!
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
The Parrot Also Rises, Against A Brilliant Yellow Sun?
By Linda G. Shelnutt
Usually I know why a book keeps me reading; I know exactly what the capture cons are. In the case of McNALLY's PUZZLE, I kept reading with my own puzzle to saw with a jig. It had something to do with a jazzy writing rhythm and with the tightly focused, First-person-Narrative pushing Archy's socially elite slang.
I found myself wondering where I'd left my dictionary; didn't want to lose the frequent opportunities to learn new words. Yet, I realized that some of the expressions Archy chewed and spewed with polished abandon were not only beyond my repertoire, they wouldn't be found in a published "literary academy" of American English. Whom does one approach for information on colloquialisms and slang which slip-slides around in socially superior swamps causing nose-in-the air neck kinks?
The book continued to draw me in, in spite of the mild irritation at Archy's dynamically driven dialogue and sensual soliloquy, doused with words I somewhat grasped in context, phrases which nudged me forward as I felt I should stop reading to research, and really digest every nuance of prose ... maybe that's part of the draw. Sanders does have a knack for creating a cajoling rhythm which carries me along, whispering to let go of whiffs of undone details as I fancy forward, wondering what Archy will say and do next.
I'm in Archy's mind, even if it is a dramatic dichotomy to my own sloppy thoughts. Archy, even if his speaking patterns irritate me, is feisty-foot-dragging fun to be with.
McNALLY'S PUZZLE is my first taste of this Lawrence Sanders series. I was initially brought to it by readers' complaints about Archy's obsession with food, and Lawrence's including every tasty bite in the plot. In fiction I seek stimulation of the senses, though most often my moods prefer to go beyond and before the abundantly available ploys of the shock syndrome, and gregariously graphic sex. What else is there but solitary, tongue-in-teeth tangos with the manna of the gods? Well, yeah, there are mountains and streams, street lamps and bed springs ... these are a few of my favorite things ... huh?
For me, the statement, "Archy bites off a big piece of bread," might work up a hint of saliva. That's what I usually get in a work of food fiction, when I'm lucky. But, the descriptive luxury of, "His teeth sink into the delicate texture of a soft, yeasty, French baguette, edged by the crunch of a crusty cover," could get a stomach growl out of a full balloon. That's how I write the description of taking a bite of bread. I could use much more of that brand of sensual prose in my escape fiction (in my reading of it, that is; my writing's usually saturated with appeals to the senses). Yet, I'm not puzzled about the natural tendency of some readers to have their tongues in their toes (shoes), wanting to go get ON with the fancy footwork.
It is the rhythm of the syntax, though; it is. And the tight focus on Archy. That is what kept me reading long enough to get beyond my minimal irritation at the pondering push of the word dance.
Once the rhythm had me going, and going, and picking up the book each time I had the time to read, I began being led by the nose, as well as the tongue, into the mystery developing with the precise timing of a master at a modern dance studio.
Then the pace picked up slightly, plateau-ed, picked up a little more, and so on, to a perfect conclusion. That's all I'll say about that, not wanting to sing the secrets, or sling them around.
Sanders exposed true confidence as an author in the pacing pauses of Archy's daily routines in this novel and especially in the succinct, crisp style of the picked up dance of denouement. I laughed out loud in cheering glee several times during the final five chapters. Archy's father's heated question to a brouhaha which brought him out of his night sanctuary was classic, heart-healing humor.
Okay. I see why Archy lives on and on, even though Sanders now has wings and flies with exotic birds of paradise, bless his heart and soul.
Still have another puzzle, though. My copy of this novel, an early version hardback, has the jacket with a gorgeously glamorous, multi-colored parrot glossed against a bright yellow sun. During one of my first few reading surges, I had stopped for a solitary lunch at a fun café near a boss bookstore, in Hotchkiss, Colorado. Lifting spectacles up on my nose, I noticed that the decor at my booth included a large, fashionably-framed print of a parrot, a twin to the one on my book jacket. In fact, the restaurant was plush with parrot paraphernalia, parroting the swampy mystique of Palm Beach, sister to New Orleans in oozing mysterious muchies. Was this an omen of some sort? A message from the miasma of muses meandering off Florida's Gold Coast? Splash!
Okay. No puzzle. Synchronicity. Jung.
Thanks, Sanders, for the satisfyingly snippy side-trip to Florida. I really don't know if I like your style, exactly, yet it's puzzlingly appealing. I have a feeling I'll one day be able to honestly say, "I do like your style!" Already, I admire and enjoy it. And, I like your subtle development of Archy, all the way through the book, especially the warm, simple, real way you enhanced the exchanges between Archy and his new Terrier, Hobo. Love the way this spirited canine was brought into the family.
I'll be back! Bank on it. I won't spit in the eye of the parrot who feeds my soul!
I'll bow to a master and say thanks,
Linda G. Shelnutt
(Where's my dictionary ... oh ... yeah ... it's on the kitchen table.)
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