McNally's Puzzle

Archy McNally, Book 6

De: Lawrence Sanders

Narrado por: Victor Bevine

Duración: 8 h y 43 m

Resumen del Editor

In the sixth book in Lawrence Sanders's best-selling Archy McNally series, a twisting tale of sizzling family secrets proves that murder isn't just for the birds

Hiram Gottschalk, owner of the Palm Beach shop Parrots Unlimited, fears for his life. First, he finds a photo of himself and his deceased wife slashed to ribbons; then, a Mass card with his name on it is taped inside of his closet door; now, someone has wrung the neck of his beloved pet bird. In desperation, he turns to McNally & Son for a private investigation. McNally meets with Gottschalk, along with his client's cursing parrot. McNally wisely ignores the bird's command to go to hell, but he can't ignore the fallout when his client is stabbed in his sleep and Gottschalk's unstable son, Peter, becomes the prime suspect. When more victims turn up, McNally has to puzzle out the motives of a murderer who has just killed two more birds with one stone...and is now targeting the dapper detective.

©1996 Lawrence A. Sanders Enterprises, Inc. (P)2013 Audible Inc.

My Favorite Author!

After reading Lawrence Sanders’ books long ago, I have started working my way through the audiobooks. Thoroughly entertaining. I’m looking forward to listening to the next one.

Enjoyable Story

Typical Archie story with plenty of Palm Beach background. Very detailed story and a lot of suspense. Good reading from start to finish.

Great Author Great Story

I love this series. I have read each book in this series numerous times and enjoy rereading and rehearing them again.

Couldn’t finish it

Loved the first four books and hoped for more of the same but Larry lost it somewhere after #4 by creating two new very unappealing characters. One is a psych who babbles on and on pushing the big pharma agenda and the other is a no-charm hanger on named Bicky? that Archle uses as a foil but a wholly unnecessary one. Too bad. If you’re just starting on this series I advise quitting after number four and save the credits.

Boooring!

Unsurprisingly, Audible stopped offering McNally books with the next - the seventh in this series.

Not to worry... The 6th in this epic is my last. Archie McNally was a traveling companion of mine as, twice a year I drove a couple thousand miles round trip to and from a vacation home. On each ride, I'd looked forward to having Victor Bevine tell me another of Lawrence Sanders McNally stories. Frankly, they helped keep me awake. You know, not so much adventure or cognitive discipline to distract from Interstate driving, but enough to tickle that part of my mind that needed support.

I noticed that 'McNally's Trial' - the fifth in this series was growing repetitive - but another meeting with Archie seemed like a tradition, so 'McNally's Puzzle' got packed with the road stuff. Pity. Sander's seems to have lost his imagination and Victor Bevine's reading brought nothing new to the adventure. So... sort of sadly, there won't be any more Archie on our future trips up and down America's east coast.

Sanders is out of steam, he phoned this one in. In fact, I'm surprised there was another McNally that followed it.