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Lawrence Sanders

    15 maart 1920 – 7 februari 1998

    Deze auteur was een productieve schepper van spannende mysteries en thrillers, die brede erkenning kreeg voor zijn meesterlijke beheersing van het genre. Zijn werken duiken vaak in complexe thema's, geprezen om hun meeslepende verhalen en ingewikkelde plots. De auteur creëerde vakkundig gedenkwaardige personages en werelden, die lezers trokken in netwerken van spanning en intrige. Zijn uitgebreide catalogus omvat meerdere series en losstaande romans, wat een veelzijdig talent toont dat een breed publiek wist te boeien.

    Lawrence Sanders
    The sixth commandment
    The passion of Molly T.
    McNally's Alibi
    Mcnally's Folly
    The 1st Deadly Sin
    McNally's Luck
    • McNally's Luck

      • 288bladzijden
      • 11 uur lezen

      Archy McNally, the urbane sleuth introduced in McNally's Secret, returns with another case set among Florida's wealthy. Archy has to discover the connection between the kidnap of an unpleasant pet cat, Peaches, and the obscene letters received by a harmless heiress which threaten a slow death.

      McNally's Luck
      4,5
    • A well-dressed man stalks the high-class neighborhoods of New York City. He is armed with an ice ax. His victims are strangers. And one cop, Captain Ed Delaney, must solve a series of bizarre murders that defy logic. Commemorating their 25th anniversary, the "Deadly Sins" novels have been repackaged with a slick new look. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

      The 1st Deadly Sin
      4,0
    • South Florida's premier sleuth-about-town strikes again in a deliciously daffy caper that takes a decidedly deadly turn. In a production of Arsenic and Old Lace, a play filled with murderers, only Archy McNally can separate the actors from the real killers.

      Mcnally's Folly
      4,0
    • Claudia Lester is a blonde with a problem: she needs someone to give a blackmailer fifty thousand dollars. But when Archy wakes up with a bump on his head both Claudia and the money have disappeared. The other person who wants to find Claudia is Decimus Fortesque, an eccentric Palm Beach character known for his even more eccentric collecting habits. The fifty thousand dollars turned out to be his - and he thinks that Claudia may be in possession of both his money and a long-lost work by Truman Capote. When Fortesque offers to hire him to find Claudia, Archy can't resist - and falls over the first corpse in the case.

      McNally's Alibi
      4,2
    • The passion of Molly T.

      • 416bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      Alternate Cover for ISBN 0-399-12972-3 From the blockbuster author of the bestselling "Sin" and "Commandment" series comes an erotic spinetingler where sex, suspense and a shocking crescendo of violence all unite in a spellbinding story. "Sanders' plot ticks away . . . He is as usual, a master of suspense".--Washington Post.

      The passion of Molly T.
      3,0
    • The sixth commandment

      • 348bladzijden
      • 13 uur lezen

      Corporate investigator Samuel Todd, who while working for a private foundation discovers that Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dr. Telford Thorndecker is secretly breaking every law of God and man, must make the most difficult decision a man could face. Lawrence Sanders at his suspenseful best.

      The sixth commandment
      3,0
    • The author of The Eighth Commandment and The Fourth Deadly Sin does it again with a masterpiece featuring "the perfect crime". A mystery writer plans a fake multi-million-dollar jewelry heist that soon turns horribly and murderously real. Caper was originally published 10 years ago by Pocket Books under the pseudonym Lesley Andress.

      Caper
      3,9
    • The First Deadly Sin

      • 630bladzijden
      • 23 uur lezen

      Captain Delaney is out to stop a well-dressed man from depopulating Manhattan's priciest neighborhoods with an ice pick.

      The First Deadly Sin
      4,1
    • The Second Deadly Sin

      • 397bladzijden
      • 14 uur lezen

      GREED KILLS... Sensual, treacherous, grandiose, Victor Maitland may be a great painter, but he is not a man who inspires love. So when he falls victim to a savage knife attack, there are few who mourn his death, while many stand to profit by it. Chief Edward Delaney starts his investigation of Maitland's family, friends and professional colleagues. With infinite patience, he uncovers a tangled jungle of human passions dominated by the lust for wealth, beauty, power and prestige. All around is the corrupting aura of greed - the Second Deadly Sin. And somewhere among those close to Maitland is the one person whose overwhelming avarice led to the murder of a brilliant artist worth more dead than alive...

      The Second Deadly Sin
      3,7
    • The Third Deadly Sin

      • 410bladzijden
      • 15 uur lezen

      The bone-chilling story of the "Hotel Ripper" who stalks New York's streets after hours -- and the retired cop who must stop him.

      The Third Deadly Sin
      4,0