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Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1993
Description
Embroiled in a murder conspiracy, man-about-Palm-Beach and sometime-sleuth Archy McNally walks into a viper's nest of lust and larceny. Checking out the background of a wealthy client's prospective daughter-in-law should be easy money for Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally-until people around gorgeous socialite Theodosia Johnson start being killed off at an alarming rate. The first to die is Theodosia's portrait painter, who gets his...
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam
Pub. Date
c1992
Description
Lawrence Sanders's perennially popular detective takes on a deceptively simple case of pet abduction, where bad luck can be deadly Archy McNally enjoys sipping late-night port with his girlfriend of the moment and tooling across southern Florida in his red Miata sports car. In his off hours, he works as a part-time investigator for his father's venerable law firm. His latest assignment? Solve a simple catnapping. But, as McNally knows,...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1997
Description
A risky gamble might not pay off when Lawrence Sanders's dilettante detective plunges into a quagmire of greed, passion, and murder At first, Archy McNally was unofficially enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg, created exclusively for the doomed Czar Nicholas in 1917. But when Edythe Westmore's son and daughter become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally is asked to deep-six...
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Where Trump Learned to Rule
To know Donald J. Trump it is best to start in his natural habitat: Palm Beach, Florida. It is here he learned the techniques that took him all the way to the White House. Painstakingly, over decades, he has created a world in this exclusive tropical enclave and favorite haunt of billionaires where he is not just president but a king. The vehicle for his triumph is Mar-A-Lago, one of the greatest mansions ever built in...
12) McNally's trial
Author
Series
Archy McNally volume 5
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1995
Description
In Florida, PI Archy McNally investigates a sudden increase in business at the Whitecomb Funeral Homes. After all, it is not as if the death rate in Palm Beach has gone up. So what is in those coffins being sent out of state to destinations all over the country? The investigation takes McNally into the world of the rich and the famous--and the crooked. By the author of McNally's Caper.
Author
Publisher
Middle River Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Description
"In the late 19th century, hunters killed millions of birds in the Florida Everglades to supply the booming trade in bird feathers for ladies' fashion. As teenagers, Charlie Pierce and his friends traveled deep into the unexplored Florida Everglades to hunt plume birds for their feathers. They never imagined the challenges they would encounter, what they would learn about themselves, and how they would contribute to American history"--Page 4. of cover....
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2009
Description
For a hundred years Palm Beach has been a fantasy land nurtured by, and maintained for, the megawealthy. Leave it to Laurence Leamer, the author known for getting the inside story on his elusive subjects, to take us behind the walls of America's most exclusive enclave. He tells a braided story involving a socialite determined to make it to the top of Palm Beach society, two infamous murders, and a powerful society reporter. As a backdrop, Leamer tells...
Author
Publisher
Middle River Press
Pub. Date
©2016
Description
"This is the fifth book in a series of books about the adventures of young Charlie Pierce, one of South Florida's earliest pioneer settlers. The story follows teenage Charlie and his fearless little sister Lillie in the late 1880s, when South Florida was America's last frontier. Together with his Seminole friend, Tiger, Charlie experienced one of the most intriguing and exotic lives imaginable. His adventures as a young boy growing up in the wild,...
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James Patterson sets this bestselling thriller in Florida’s wealthiest zip code. Palm Beach doesn’t just have billionaires, yachts, and private planes—it also has the best murder plots money can buy.
The Palm Beach Murders (previously published as Let's Play Make-Believe): Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly...
The Palm Beach Murders (previously published as Let's Play Make-Believe): Both survivors of the divorce wars, Christy and Martin don't believe in love at first sight and certainly...
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