Vincent Lardo

Archy McNally must see through the scam of former human cannonball Matthew Hayes's backyard maze when Hayes's ladylove is discovered at the center of the maze, murdered.

A tale of money and murder in the Hamptons. The hero is a poor farm boy, envious of wealthy second-home residents. He commits a murder and might get away--it depends on detective Eddy Evans.

When Decimus Fortesque, the millionaire collector of wives and manuscripts, hires Archy McNally to locate the Holy Grail of missing tomes, the complete text of Truman Capote's Answered Prayers, Archy uncovers nothing but scandal. Luscious Claudia Lester claims to have had the manuscript but declares that her lover, Matthew Harrigan, ran off with it; a lover scorned, Harrigan says Claudia is lying. And Rodney Whitehead, a shady antiques dealer, maintains...

New York Times bestseller: A mystery “full of twists and turns” set among the elite society of Palm Beach (Library Journal).
 
The Palm Beach tennis season starts off with a bang when a pro is shot by his wife after she catches him with another woman. For Archy McNally, private investigator to the rich and infamous, the case seems open and shut. The killer, twice-married socialite Melva Williams,...