MCNALLY'S ALIBI by Vincent Lardo (as Lawrence Sanders) - FIRST EDITION BOOK
A mysterious collector, a missing manuscript, and a troika of lovely
ladies challenge Archy McNally, South Florida's most famous Discreet
Inquirer.
When Decimus Fortesque, the millionaire collector of
wives and rare manuscripts, hires Archy McNally to locate the Holy
Grail of missing tomes - the complete text of Truman Capote's Answered Prayers -- Palm Beach's premier P.I. uncovers nothing but scandal.
Luscious
Claudia Lester declares that her lover, Matthew Harrigan, ran off with
it. Harrigan says Claudia is lying. When the supposed owner of the
manuscript meets with misadventure in a sleazy motel, and Archy awakens
in his Miata with a baseball-sized bump on the head, there is no end to
the finger-pointing.
To add to Archie's woes, his favorite gal,
Connie Garcia, is being courted by the dashing Alejandro Gomez y
Zapata, who has vowed to liberate Cuba from Castro and Connie from
Archie. But fear not, for should Archie loose Connie, there just might
be a fair-haired lass ready to fill the void -- so what if she is
packing heat? Romance might have to take a backseat until Archy can
sort out who's who among this felonious band of ne're-do-wells and flimflam artists.
