For poor Archy McNally, there's more drama backstage than onstage and plenty of confusion everywhere as the Palm Beach Community Theatre puts on Arsenic and Old Lace. Lured into the director's chair by the prospect of rubbing shoulders with Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling, Archy finds himself in a real-life murder story when someone takes a sip of prop wine and drops dead.
In a play filled with murderers, only Archy can separate the actors from the genuine article, and bring down the curtain on the latest and most enjoyable of McNally's follies.
Lawrence Sanders, one of the world's most popular novelists, wrote twenty-five international bestsellers including the Deadly Sin and Commandment series and the eight Archy McNally novels. After his death, the estate of Lawrence Sanders chose Vincent Lardo, author of The Hampton Affair and The Hampton Connection, to create new novels based on Archy McNally and his fictional world including McNally's Chance, McNally's Dilemma and McNally's Folly.
'For those who prefer their crime in very funny doses.'
Mike Ripley, Daily Telegraph
'Archy McNally is a wonderfully unlikely character, the Bertie Wooster of private detection . . . suspend belief and sit back and enjoy.'
Guardian
'Sanders writes smoothly about characters complex enough to care for, deftly suggesting the grimace behind the grin.'
Cosmopolitan
'Fluent and confident, urban and urbane intelligence.'
The Sunday Times
'Perfect for that long-haul flight, McNally's Dilemma always manages to balance its pretensions with wit'
South Wales Evevning Post