The Archy in FOLLY was precisely the same laid-back character as the Archy in the Sanders offerings (1-7).
In my review of DILEMMA I discussed the maleness factor of that Archy as opposed to Sanders' more sensitive, artistic, leisurely guy. It was interesting to me that this # 9 focused on seances, and determining the validity of a psychic, Serge Ouspenskaya, communicating with spirits of the deceased.Īs noted, a fascination I felt reading FOLLY was that this version of Archy was different from the character Lardo presented in DILEMMA. McNally's FOLLY was # 9 in this series conceived by Lawrence Sanders, the second one in Vincent Lardo's continuation (McNally's DILEMMA was Lardo's opening salvo on Archy). (That is an overall observation the scent of Archy-2 did attempt to whiff out in a few places, but Lardo reigned it in quickly.) Ironically, in FOLLY, Archy was "playing" Director of a stage play of "Arsenic and Old Lace" (of course), by Palm Beach's Community Players, but he had returned to his natural way of "flowing with" rather than controlling. One of the contrasts I noticed in DILEMMA between Archy-by-Sanders-Vs.-Archy-by-Lardo was that Lardo's Archy-2 (not in character with Archy-1's finesse) seemed to direct and control the plot and everyone in it. Maybe that "easing" was caused by Archy's return I don't know what happened to the Archy-2, beard-shadow-guy described in my recent review of DILEMMA. The story, setting, and characters enveloped the reader, soothing away toil and trauma.
The best word I can come up with for this novel is not cozy but comfortable, like the softest easy chair conjure-able. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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