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Summary: Who are you and what did you do with Archie?
Review: The character answers to Archie, he lives with the senior McNally and his lovely "I love those begonias" wife, still goes to the Pelican Club and Ms Connie (The Lady Horowitz social secretary) is still the long suffering love interest--most of the time--in his life. But, somehow the spark is gone, the glib, gutsy, dialogue is flat and strained. Archie fans can tell the difference. New readers may well fall in favor with the Junior McNally in "Dilemma", but as a 25 year reader of Lawrence Sanders every work, Archie has always been a light side against the dark side of the "Sins" and "Commandments" books. But this Archie is an imposter. One never knows, do one. One of my favorite characters has expired with Mr. Sanders. I grieve both their passings. Good night Archie, you were exceptional.
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Summary: VERY deceiving on the part of the publisher
Review: Nice try, but not Sanders'caliber. I did however enjoy most of the story-I guess I am that desperate for Achy adventures........... The fact that it is barely noted this is not Sanders actual work is deceitful. Read the Amazon reader reviews, there are a few people who didn't even know!
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Summary: Lawrence Sanders must be turning in his grave over this!
Review: I was so excited when I found out there was a new McNally book, after all it had been 2 years. Like many others I was dismayed at the term 'was' on the book jacket and delved into the copyright page to discover that it was not written by Mr. Sanders. Mr. Lardo's poor attempt at becoming Archy McNally is extremely disappointing. He tries very hard to write just like Mr. Sanders and he fails miserably. I am struggling through the book to see "who done it", but will be putting it on the book shelf permanently, never to be read again!
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Summary: Greed is bad.
Review: Greed. Lawrence Sanders' characters know all about it and so does Putnam and the estate of L.S. The book is obviously not written by the creator of Archy McNally. I was dismayed by the plot, which was too similiar to previous Mcnally stories. Worse, I decided to read about the author on the jacket to review his writing history and found only ONE line. "Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than twenty-two bestsellers." Was..was...was. I didn't know he had died. Then I read the copyright page, which did not contain the date of this death. A great writer such as L.S. deserves more than ONE line on the passing of his death, especially if another writer is going to pen the entire book, yet there is no mention of this except in the tiny copyright section. This is blasphemy! The publisher should have posted this info in the reviews @Amazon. The jacket needs to be redone! I for one would have still bought a McNally book with this knowledge. A total sham and I might never buy another book published by Putnam ever again. What were these people thinking? tsk..tsk
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Summary: Not bad, but ...
Review: This is not a bad book, but it is not worthy of Lawrence Sanders' name or to have been published in the McNally series. Mr. Lardo may be able to write an entertaining novel, but this is not it. He strains so hard to duplicate Lawrence Sanders that he constantly takes away from his story. Hopefully, this will be the last of the McNally series and the last poor-copy of Mr. Sanders who brought a uniqueness and freshness to his writing. I shall miss Mr. Sanders. I enjoyed everything he wrote.
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Summary: I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
Review: I think Vincent Lardo did an excellent job. Archie fans will delight in his further exploits. I hope we will have many more Mcnally adventures!
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I've loved the McNally series and eagerly looked forward to reading McNally's Dilemma. I found the story to be boring. I thought Vincent Lardo did a fine job capturing the spirit of Archy and the usual characters, but the story just didn't do it for me.
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Summary: Not even close to be a Sanders work
Review: I am in the middle of reading this so called Sanders book. I will only read it until I find something else. I knew from the first chapter that this was not a true Sander book. The writing is so bad that it is almost un-readable. This qhost writer obviously does not have a clue who Arch is or how he acts. It is the worst thing I have ever read. I am sorry that there is not a lower rating than one star, because that is what it deserve. I feel sorry for anyone who buys this garbage
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Summary: Nothing like the original
Review: If you're not a fan of Lawrence Sanders and haven't read his previous works, this work will strike you as somewhat entertaining. If you don't read the fine print, and miss the fact that this is an effort commissioned by the publisher and estate of the late author, you'll think this is Sanders' last book and his worst effort. I resent the fact that you have to delve so far into the fine print in the frontmatter to find all this out. I see why Amazon has discounted the price so deeply. Frankly, even at the discounted price, it wasn't worth the expense or the effort.
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Summary: Lawrence Sanders rolls over in his grave...
Review: While I knew going in that this book was not written by Mr. Sanders, I had high expectations since Mr. Lardo was chosen by the Sanders estate and it was written in "the Sanders style." NOT EVEN CLOSE.The plot line, prose, and even the characters themselves were trite, simple, and poorly written. This must have been the Sanders Estate way of raising money to pay estate taxes. I am glad I borrowed this book from the Public Library and did not buy it
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