McNally’s
Caper
Berkley,
1995
Suspense/Comedy
read:
August 2004
With
all the reading I do and all the cheap pulp fiction I purchase in used
bookstores I cannot believe that I have never read a Lawrence Sanders
novel, let alone a story staring McNally. On
the other hand, I did not like this book a whole lot.
The writing is (purposively) flippant and quirky and the antagonists are
all essentially superheroes. McNally is annoyingly successful in life (and more
so in love) and while I appreciated his moral ambiguity, I could not help but
feel it was simply fantasy fulfillment on Lawrence’s part.
In this book McNally, who solves crimes for the successful family law
business, must deal with missing objects (like a first edition Poe) from the
home of a wealthy client. The
client is then murdered and McNally, of course, must deal with that.
I would not recommend this book but I would be willing to give Mr.
Sanders (and possibly McNally) another chance.