First in the series starring the sleuthing Palm Beach playboy from the #1 New York Times–bestselling and Edgar Award–winning author.
 Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach’s power elite. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally’s latest case. A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing...

Private detective Archy McNally is hired by a formidable matron and gets involved in murder and scams.

Chief of Discreet Inquiries Archy McNally is asked to find out why the Whitcomb Funeral Homes have had such a profitable and drastic increase in outof-state burials and where the bodies are going.

Archy lives a life most people only dream about. As Chief of Discreet Inquiries at his father's white-shoe law firm, Arch keeps tabs on the rich and famous while keeping hours only a barfly could love. When well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore is urged to buy a Faberge Imperial egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the investment and enlist Archy's services to put the kibosh on the deal.

When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for their production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. And while resident grand dame Lady Cynthia Horowitz wants a little of the spotlight to fall on her latest live-in-hunk, Buzz Carr, she has no intention of letting Buzz rehearse all day with the actress who, like...

McNally runs up against a lot of brick walls as he searches for the complete text of Truman Capote's Unanswered Prayers at the behest of a millionaire collector.

The opening night of Matthew Hayes' Amazin' Maze arrives and gasps of wonder and delight are replaced by those of horror, as Hayes' ladylove is discovered dead at the center of the maze. The authorities are stumped as Hayes' carnival background gives rise to a number of possible suspects. Or are there other forces at work? It's up to Archy McNally to see through the scam and catch a killer.