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.
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.
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.
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.
The love story of a 20th-century Joan of Arc who has arisen to become the first female American paramilitary leader of the Women's Defense Corp.
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.
Joshua Bigg is small. But New York's most compact (at 5'3") investigator is a giant among midgets when it comes to tracking lost clients through a maze of murder and mayhem to the inner depths of a bizarre religious racket.
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.
A compelling drama of a crusty New York City cop who stalks the streets for a psychotic killer while his wife lies dying of an incurable illness.
Coming out of retirement to investigate the stabbing murder of Victor Maitland, an artist both hated and acclaimed, ex-Chief of Detectives Edward X. Delaney finds a mob of greedy suspects and a tangle of possible motives.
Edward X. "Iron Balls" Delaney is called out of retirement by the NYPD to hunt out a random killer at large in midtown New York.
