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Start with McNally's Secret and continue through all 13 books in the listed reading order.
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Start with McNally's Secret
Book 1 by Lawrence Sanders • Published 1991
Privileged investigator Archy McNally is hired to recover a set of rare stamps stolen from a Palm Beach grande dame. What begins as discreet snooping among the rich quickly spirals into blackmail, murder, and revelati...
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Ends with McNally's Bluff
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Book 1:McNally's Secret
Lawrence Sanders • 1991
Privileged investigator Archy McNally is hired to recover a set of rare stamps stolen from a Palm Beach grande dame. What begins as discreet snooping among the rich quickly spirals into blackmail, murder, and revelati...
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Book 2:McNally's Luck
Lawrence Sanders • 1992
A routine job retrieving a kidnapped, bad tempered Persian cat seems beneath Archy McNally's talents. When the cat's wealthy owner is found murdered, he uncovers a disturbing connection between pet theft and human gre...
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Book 3:McNally's Risk
Lawrence Sanders • 1993
Archy is asked to investigate the past of a beautiful young woman engaged to a client's son. As bodies begin to fall around her and she turns her charms on Archy, he must stage an elaborate con to reveal a killer.
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Book 4:McNally's Caper
Lawrence Sanders • 1994
When a Palm Beach patriarch suspects his grasping relatives of quietly looting the family estate, he hires Archy McNally to identify the thief. After the old man is murdered, Archy must navigate a nest of seductive su...
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Book 5:McNally's Trial
Lawrence Sanders • 1995
Archy looks into an odd request from a funeral home funneling hundreds of Florida corpses to northern cities. The deeper he digs into the shipping records, the more he suspects a grisly profit scheme hiding behind pol...
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Book 6:McNally's Puzzle
Lawrence Sanders • 1996
A nervous owner of a Palm Beach bird shop hires Archy after someone mutilates a photograph and kills his prized parrot. When the man himself is stabbed in his sleep, Archy follows a trail of jealousy and old grievance...
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Book 7:McNally's Gamble
Lawrence Sanders • 1997
Archy is drawn into a family feud when a wealthy widow agrees to buy a supposedly priceless Fabergé egg. Her suspicious children fear a swindle, and as rival heirs flirt and scheme, Archy races to expose fraud before...
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Book 8:McNally's Dilemma
Lawrence Sanders • 1999
A socialite calmly admits she shot her tennis pro husband in bed with another woman and hires Archy only to protect her glamorous daughter from scandal. Contradictory stories and a lurking blackmailer convince him the...
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Book 9:McNally's Folly
Lawrence Sanders • 2000
Archy is starstruck when an aging Hollywood legend arrives in Palm Beach with a rich new husband and a blackmailer on her trail. To protect a long buried scandalous film, he untangles old studio secrets and fresh moti...
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Book 10:McNally's Chance
Lawrence Sanders • 2001
Romance novelist Sabrina Wright asks Archy to track down her husband and adopted daughter, both missing in Palm Beach. As three powerful men step forward claiming to be the girl's real father, family lies, paternity s...
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Book 11:McNally's Alibi
Lawrence Sanders • 2002
Archy reluctantly agrees to recover a compromising diary for a nervous client who fears her former lover will publish it. After the handoff ends with Archy unconscious, the cash and diary missing, and a corpse in the...
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Book 12:McNally's Dare
Lawrence Sanders • 2003
During a glamorous charity tennis event, a social climber drops dead on court and almost everyone in Palm Beach has a theory. Hired by three different clients with competing agendas, Archy sorts gossip from fact to pi...
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Book 13:McNally's Bluff
Lawrence Sanders • 2004
In a sprawling hedge maze built as a tourist attraction, a man is stabbed to death in front of a crowd, yet no one sees the killer. Archy must work out how the murder was staged and who benefitted from the perfect ill...
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What is the best order to read the Archy Mcnally series?
The recommended reading order is the numbered order shown on this page, starting with McNally's Secret.
How many books are in the Archy Mcnally series?
There are 13 books currently listed in the Archy Mcnally series on GurusReads.
Where should I start with the Archy Mcnally series?
New readers should start with McNally's Secret, the first book in the reading order.
Is the Archy Mcnally series complete?
Based on the publication years we have, the series appears likely complete and spans releases from 1991 to 2004.