Archy McNally Books in Order

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 illusion.

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 pinpoint who turned sport into homicide.

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 motel room, he must clear his own name.

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 secrets, and murder collide.

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 motives for murder.

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 open and shut case hides something darker.

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 greed turns deadly.

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 grievances through the exotic pet trade.

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 polite mortuary doors.

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 suspects and missing masterpieces.

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.

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 greed in Palm Beach high society.

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 revelations uncomfortably close to home.