Lawrence Sanders
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The explosive Edgar Award–winning debut novel—told entirely through surveillance recordings, eyewitness reports, and other “official” documents—by New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders
New York City. Summer 1968.Newly sprung from prison, professional burglar John Anderson is preparing for the biggest heist of his criminal career. The mark is a Manhattan luxury apartment building...
New York City. Summer 1968.Newly sprung from prison, professional burglar John Anderson is preparing for the biggest heist of his criminal career. The mark is a Manhattan luxury apartment building...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 1
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English
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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...
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...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 13
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English
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The final book in the New York Times–bestselling series is “a wacky, waggish whodunit,” as the Palm Beach PI investigates a dead end in a maze (Publishers Weekly).
The night Palm Beach society has been eagerly awaiting has finally arrived. Matthew Hayes, once the human cannonball in a traveling carnival and now a retired millionaire, is unveiling his Amazin’ Maze, styled after the historic hedge maze...
The night Palm Beach society has been eagerly awaiting has finally arrived. Matthew Hayes, once the human cannonball in a traveling carnival and now a retired millionaire, is unveiling his Amazin’ Maze, styled after the historic hedge maze...
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Commandment volume 3
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1986
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381 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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When a rare coin vanishes, an appraiser tries to clear her name - and exposes one family's lethal secrets. Appraising rare coins for Grandby & Sons, a venerable Madison Avenue auction house, is a dream come true for Mary Lou Bateson. She even gets a chance to inspect the Havistock Collection of priceless coins, which includes the Demaretion, a rare, ancient Greek silver piece. But when the Demaretion disappears just after her assessment, the young...
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The #1 New York Times–bestselling author introduces readers to “a great detective, a detective’s detective,” New York cop Edward X. Delaney (Kirkus Reviews).
New York Police Department Captain Edward Delaney is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A Brooklyn councilman was struck from behind, the back of his skull punctured and crushed with an unknown weapon. The victim wasn’t robbed, and...
New York Police Department Captain Edward Delaney is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A Brooklyn councilman was struck from behind, the back of his skull punctured and crushed with an unknown weapon. The victim wasn’t robbed, and...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 3
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English
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Embroiled in a murder conspiracy, man-about-Palm-Beach and sometime-sleuth Archy McNally walks into a viper's nest of lust and larceny. Checking out the background of a wealthy client's prospective daughter-in-law should be easy money for Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally-until people around gorgeous socialite Theodosia Johnson start being killed off at an alarming rate. The first to die is Theodosia's portrait painter, who gets his...
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Retired police detective chief Edward Delaney is called back to the force to hunt a killer who's crazy like a fox On a rainy November night, Dr. Simon Ellerbee stares out the window of his Upper East Side psychiatry office, miserably wishing he could seek counseling for the problems in his seemingly perfect life. He hears the door buzzer and goes to answer it, but flinches when he sees his unexpected guest. Minutes later, he's dead, his skull...
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Retired cop Edward X. Delaney takes on a female serial killer in this spine-tingling masterwork of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders. By day, she's a middle-aged secretary no one would look at twice. But by night, dressed in a midnight-black wig, a skin-tight dress, and spike heels, she's hard to miss. Inside her leather shoulder bag are keys, cash, mace, and a Swiss Army knife. She prowls smoky hotel bars for prey. The...
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A taut and gripping tale that sets police detective Edward Delaney on the trail of a vicious criminal in New York's art world A month ago, world-renowned artist Victor Maitland was found dead in his Mott Street studio-stabbed repeatedly in the back. With no clear leads or suspects, the New York Police Department calls Chief Edward Delaney out of retirement. Delaney is still adjusting to life on the outside, and he's bored by his free time. He welcomes...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 8
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1999
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309 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Lawrence Sanders's beloved sleuth Archy McNally returns in a novel by Vincent Lardo Archy McNally investigates a murderous crime of passion on the tennis court that is much more than it seems 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...
11) McNally's gamble
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
1997
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English
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A risky gamble might not pay off when Lawrence Sanders's dilettante detective plunges into a quagmire of greed, passion, and murder At first, Archy McNally was unofficially enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Fabergé Imperial egg, created exclusively for the doomed Czar Nicholas in 1917. But when Edythe Westmore's son and daughter become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally is asked to deep-six...
12) McNally's caper
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 4
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Putnam's
Pub. Date
c1994
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319 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Archy McNally's latest escapade sends the Palm Beach private investigator into the heart of a dynasty, where scandalous secrets are concealed by wealth and power Archy McNally, the parttime investigator and fulltime bon vivant,takes on the curious case of a thief with exquisite taste within the eccentric Forsythe family. Griswold Forsythe II wants to know which greedy, conniving relative is making off with the family treasures, including an original...
13) McNally's luck
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 2
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1992
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319 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Lawrence Sanders's perennially popular detective takes on a deceptively simple case of pet abduction, where bad luck can be deadly Archy McNally enjoys sipping late-night port with his girlfriend of the moment and tooling across southern Florida in his red Miata sports car. In his off hours, he works as a part-time investigator for his father's venerable law firm. His latest assignment? Solve a simple catnapping. But, as McNally knows,...
14) Caper
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Berkley
Pub. Date
1987, c1980
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360 p. ; 18 cm
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders spins the tale of a mystery writer caught up in the perfect crime. My name is Jannie Shean. I go by many other names (including, heaven help me, Brick Wall), all of them male, and all of them designed to entice the macho readers who read my hard-boiled thrillers. But after my last Big Caper novel, everything changed. My publisher decided I was out of touch and needed to get out in the real world to...
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Commandment volume 4
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1991
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351 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Lawrence Sanders concludes his bestselling Commandment series with a sizzling tale of hot-blooded lust and stone-cold murder
Nothing gets by Dora Conti. Her latest case brings the tough-as-nails claims adjuster to the mean streets of New York, where Lewis Starrett, a wealthy society jeweler, has been fatally stabbed. Though the killer was apparently an amateur, there was a lot of power behind the knife's thrust. The victim lived in an eighteen-room...
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Commandment volume 2
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1980
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385 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this installment of Lawrence Sanders's acclaimed Commandment series, a law firm investigator goes up against a cunning adversary who uses religion for retribution Joshua Bigg, an investigator for a Manhattan law firm, usually spends his days tracking down witnesses and verifying clients' alibis. Ironically, Bigg is quite short, and uses his boyish looks to coax information from his targets. The newly promoted agent gets the chance to show his mettle...
17) Sullivan's sting
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From the New York Times bestselling author of the Deadly Sins seriescomes the story of a female FBI agent on the most dangerous mission of her career Rita Sullivan is the kind of FBI agent who plays by the book and always gets her man. Now, to bring a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scammer to justice, she must become a con artist herself. David Rathbone has walked away from an insider-trading rap in New York, and the Feds are out for blood. When the beautiful...
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Timothy Cone mysteries volume 1
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1987
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380 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Three novellas about private investigator Timothy Cone, whose business is other people's business... and who believes that no crime should go unpunished. Haldering & Co., a team of private investigators, goes into a tailspin when Ed Griffon, one of their own, dies at the Union Square subway station, crushed under the wheels of an oncoming train. Timothy Cone, one of the Haldering PIs, believes that Griffon was trailing a target when he plunged to...
19) McNally's trial
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 5
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
1995
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309 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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In this Literary Guild selection, burying the dead takes on new meaning as greed and revenge rack up a body count . . . and no good deed goes unpunished Business is booming at Whitcomb Funeral Homes in southern Florida. Called in to investigate this inexplicable uptick, Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally finds himself in the middle of a most unusual case. In the past six months, Whitcomb has shipped out five hundred dead bodies. Why...
20) Timothy's game
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Timothy Cone mysteries volume 2
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Putnam
Pub. Date
c1988
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382 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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Wall Street private investigator Timothy Cone is back in this trio of novellas that plunge into the high-stakes worlds of insider trading, corporate espionage, and cold-blooded murder Timothy Cone works for an agency that provides "financial intelligence"-and often investigates murder and mayhem, too. In "Run, Sally, Run!," Timothy Cone investigates insider leaks in a New York investment banking house, and faces the ruthless Sally Steiner, who's willing...