<div>A New York Times&ndash;bestselling thriller of medicine and murder by an Edgar Award&ndash;winning legend of suspense. The Bingham Foundation is one of the most important scientific charities in the country, giving grants that can make or break a researcher&rsquo;s career. When they get a proposal that seems too good to be true, they send hardened investigator Samuel Todd to confirm that the science holds up. A cynical detective with a sixth sense for deception and a bad habit of committing adultery, Todd has never met a liar he couldn&rsquo;t crack. But he&rsquo;s never met anyone like T. G. Thorndecker. Thorndecker won the Nobel Prize in his thirties, and his work continues to push the outer limits of modern technology. After years of secret research, he claims to have made a breakthrough in the war against aging. When he requests a million-dollar grant from the Bingham Foundation, Todd goes to find out if he&rsquo;s on the level. As he digs into the demise of Thorndecker&rsquo;s first wife and late-night happenings in the lab, Todd comes face to face with a medical mystery that blurs the line between life and death. The author of the bestselling Edward X. Delaney series, called &ldquo;a master of suspense&rdquo; by the Washington Post, was one of the most popular thriller authors of the twentieth century. The Sixth Commandment shows that his work remains as irresistibly exciting as ever. </div>

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The Sixth Commandment

<div>The explosive Edgar Award&ndash;winning debut novel&mdash;told entirely through surveillance recordings, eyewitness reports, and other &ldquo;official&rdquo; documents&mdash;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 with the tony address of 535 East Seventy-Third Street. Enlisting a crew of scouts, con artists, and a getaway driver, Anderson orchestrates what he believes to be a foolproof plan. To pull off the big score, he needs one last thing: the permission of the local mafia, who expect a piece of the action. But no one inside Anderson&rsquo;s operation knows that the police have recorded their conversations. The New York Police Department has hatched a plot of its own&mdash;but even its task force may not be enough to stop such a cunningly planned robbery.</div>

Overdrive

The Anderson Tapes

<div>First in the series starring the sleuthing Palm Beach playboy from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling and Edgar Award&ndash;winning author. Inveterate playboy Archy McNally gets paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach&rsquo;s power elite. But keeping their dirty little secrets buried will take some fancy footwork in McNally&rsquo;s latest case. A block of priceless 1918 US airmail stamps has gone missing from a high-society matron&rsquo;s wall safe. Lady Cynthia Horowitz, now on her sixth husband, is a nasty piece of work who lives in a mansion that looks like Gone With the Wind&rsquo;s Tara transplanted to southern Florida. McNally&rsquo;s search takes him into a thickening maze of sex, lies, scandal, and blackmail. When passion erupts into murder and McNally must dig even deeper to uncover the truth, he unearths a shocking secret that could expose his own family&rsquo;s skeletons. </div>

McNally's Secret

<div>The #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author introduces readers to &ldquo;a great detective, a detective&rsquo;s detective,&rdquo; 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&rsquo;t robbed, and there&rsquo;s no known motive. The commissioner appoints Delaney to head up a clandestine task force, but soon this effort ignites an internecine war of departmental backstabbing. Distracted by the serious illness of his wife, Barbara, Delaney begins his secret investigation. Then the killer claims another victim&mdash;slain in the exact same way, leaving the strange puncture wound. As more young men are found murdered, Delaney starts putting the pieces together. Soon, he&rsquo;s faced with a cop&rsquo;s dilemma: He knows who the killer is, but the man is untouchable. That&rsquo;s when Delaney lays a trap to bring a monster to justice . . .</div>

The First Deadly Sin

<div>When a Manhattan psychiatrist is murdered, a retired detective returns to the job, in a thriller by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling &ldquo;master of suspense&rdquo; (The Washington Post). 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&rsquo;s dead, his skull crushed by repeated blows from a ball-peen hammer. Once the doctor was down, the killer turned over the body and smashed in Ellerbee&rsquo;s eyes. With no leads and a case getting colder by the hour, the New York Police Department calls in former chief Edward Delaney. His search for the truth raises more questions than answers: Who had Ellerbee let into his office? Why were there two sets of wet footprints on the carpeting of the doctor&rsquo;s townhouse? What caused Ellerbee&rsquo;s odd personality transformation over the past year? And who murdered, then symbolically mutilated, the prominent Manhattan psychiatrist?</div>

The Fourth Deadly Sin

<div>New York Times Bestseller: A retired cop hunts for a female serial killer no one would suspect in this &ldquo;first-rate thriller . . . as good as you can get&rdquo; (The New York Times). By day, she&rsquo;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&rsquo;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 first victim&mdash;a convention guest at an upscale Manhattan hotel&mdash;is found with multiple stab wounds to the neck and genitals. By the time retired police detective chief Edward Delaney hears about the case from an old colleague, the Hotel Ripper has already struck twice. Unable to resist the puzzle, Delaney follows the clues and soon realizes he&rsquo;s looking for a woman. As the grisly slayings continue, seizing the city in a chokehold of panic, Delaney must stop the madwoman before she kills again.</div>

The Third Deadly Sin

<div>Three novellas about private investigator Timothy Cone, whose business is other people&rsquo;s business . . . and who believes that no crime should go unpunished Haldering &amp; 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 his death. While Cone doesn&rsquo;t fit in with his company&rsquo;s Wall Street image&mdash;he&rsquo;s shy, a sloppy dresser, and lives in a decrepit loft&mdash;he&rsquo;s a dogged detective. Cone expects the worst of most people. The exception is Samantha Whatley, his tough-talking office manager and secret lover. Samantha helps him sift through the evidence, and Cone is suddenly up to his neck in bribery, corruption, drugs, and murder. Even though Cone didn&rsquo;t know Griffon well, his strict sense of justice will lead him to risk his life to find his colleague&rsquo;s killer.</div>

The Timothy Files

<div>Is a Florida widow being conned out of a fortune? The debonair detective tries to find out in this novel in the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling series. At first, Archy McNally was unofficially enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Faberg&eacute; Imperial egg, created exclusively for the doomed Czar Nicholas in 1917. But when Edythe Westmore&rsquo;s son and daughter become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally is asked to deep-six the whole deal. He gets more than he bargained for when Natalie Westmore and her brother&rsquo;s wife, Helen, both try to seduce him. The Palm Beach detective will need to employ some fancy footwork as he reveals a mess of lust, greed, and murder that smells worse than a rotten egg. Now it&rsquo;s his own neck McNally&rsquo;s risking to lay a trap for someone who&rsquo;s counting dividends before they hatch. </div>

McNally's Gamble

<div>If anyone can connect a dead waiter in a pool, a deceased duchess, and a possibly phony heir, it&rsquo;s the Palm Beach PI&mdash;in this New York Times bestseller. Malcolm MacNiff&rsquo;s annual Tennis Everyone!fundraiser is the high point of the Palm Beach season. But the glittering A-list event hits rock bottom when a waiter is found floating face down in the pool. Archy McNally instantly suspects foul play. No sooner are his fears confirmed than he has another mystery to solve. Society&rsquo;s abuzz over the recent arrival of Lance Talbot from Switzerland to claim his half-billion inheritance from his grandmother&rsquo;s estate, but some claim that Talbot&rsquo;s a fraud. It falls to McNally to sift through the clues and uncover a murderous scam that stretches from the snowy Alps all the way to sunny Florida. </div>

McNally's Dare

<div>A mystery writer gets caught up in the perfect crime in this &ldquo;fresh, entertaining, tough, and sexy&rdquo; thriller from the #1 bestselling author (The Washington Post). 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 gain some life experience . . . Even Jannie can&rsquo;t imagine what will happen when she and her pal Dick Fleming plan a major jewelry heist and getaway, only to have everything go horribly, murderously wrong. Soon Jannie&rsquo;s running from the cops and the mob. This fight for her life could be the perfect fodder for her next book . . . if she lives to tell the tale.</div>

Caper

<div>From the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally&rsquo;s feathers are ruffled when a bird store owner is killed. Hiram Gottschalk, owner of the Palm Beach shop Parrots Unlimited, fears for his life. First, he finds a photo of himself and his deceased wife slashed to ribbons; then, a Mass card with his name on it is taped inside of his closet door; now, someone has wrung the neck of his beloved pet bird. In desperation, he turns to McNally &amp; Son for a private investigation. McNally meets with Gottschalk, along with his client&rsquo;s cursing parrot. McNally wisely ignores the bird&rsquo;s command to go to hell, but he can&rsquo;t ignore the fallout when his client is stabbed in his sleep and Gottschalk&rsquo;s unstable son, Peter, becomes the prime suspect. When more victims turn up, McNally has to puzzle out the motives of a murderer who has just killed two more birds with one stone . . . and is now targeting the dapper detective. </div>

McNally's Puzzle

<div>A police detective must find out who murdered a world-famous artist in a thriller by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling &ldquo;master of suspense&rdquo; (The Washington Post). A month ago, world-renowned artist Victor Maitland was found dead in his Mott Street studio&mdash;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&rsquo;s bored by his free time. He welcomes the chance to put his well-honed investigative skills to the test once again. To investigate the case, Delaney plunges into Maitland&rsquo;s rarefied orbit. Following a winding path of avarice, deception, and fraud, Delaney uncovers a long line of suspects that includes Maitland&rsquo;s wife, son, and mistress. When a second murder rocks Manhattan&rsquo;s art world, Delaney moves closer to the truth about what kind of a man&mdash;or monster&mdash;Victor Maitland really was. But which of the artist&rsquo;s enemies was capable of killing him and leaving no trail?</div>

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The Second Deadly Sin

<div>The Palm Beach PI is on the case of a corpse conspiracy. &ldquo;Lawrence Sanders has honed a voice for Archy McNally that is wonderfully infectious&rdquo; (The Washington Times). 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 are so many caskets leaving the Sunshine State and being airlifted to New York, Boston, and Chicago? And why did Whitcomb&rsquo;s comely comptroller come to McNally &amp; Son in the first place? Further complicating McNally&rsquo;s life are his air-headed buddy, Binky Watrous, who wants to be his private-eye assistant, and his faithful love, Connie Garcia, who&rsquo;s got her spies when it comes to McNally&rsquo;s weakness for the ladies. Murder worthy of the headline Death-styles of the Rich and Famous add to McNally&rsquo;s tribulations. And the next set of human remains could be his. </div>

McNally's Trial

<div>When the husband of an actress sips a poisoned potable, Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s beloved Palm Beach PI must stage an investigation from his director&rsquo;s chair. One of the most celebrated stars of Hollywood&rsquo;s Golden Age, Desdemona Darling, has come South for the season. She makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater&rsquo;s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. Archy McNally somehow gets roped into directing&mdash;and into discreetly investigating who could be blackmailing his star. Life tragically imitates art when Richard Holmes&mdash;Darling&rsquo;s Husband Number Seven&mdash;sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party. Holmes was a self-made millionaire with a genius for betting on pork bellies. But who&rsquo;d want him dead? As McNally tries to smoke out the culprit, he wonders if he&rsquo;s getting too close to a remorseless killer who&rsquo;s about to drop the curtain on another victim. </div>

McNally's Folly

<div>The final book in the New York Times&ndash;bestselling series is &ldquo;a wacky, waggish whodunit,&rdquo; 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&rsquo; Maze, styled after the historic hedge maze at England&rsquo;s Hampton Court Palace. But even this wonder is upstaged by Hayes&rsquo;s wife&mdash;when she&rsquo;s found dead in the center of the labyrinth. Marvelous Marlena Marvel, a sideshow wonder of amazing pulchritude, was a devotee of the black arts. But the motive for her murder is as murky as her mystical talents . . . especially when Archy McNally uncovers a link to another homicide. It&rsquo;s a crime scene straight out of Barnum &amp; Bailey as McNally employs his own sleight-of-hand to catch a killer about to pull off the greatest vanishing act of all. </div>

McNally's Bluff

<div>New York Times bestseller: A mystery &ldquo;full of twists and turns&rdquo; set among the elite society of Palm Beach (Library Journal). 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 Williams, confesses to offing her cheating spouse in a moment of passion. Now she wants McNally to do her a favor: Keep the paparazzi away from her daughter, Veronica. Playing babysitter to the beautiful Veronica and remaining faithful to his fianc&eacute;e prove beyond McNally&rsquo;s capabilities. Before he can sort out his private life, blackmail enters the picture. As McNally attempts to find the truth amidst all the lies, his investigation must include a look into the past&mdash;and a tragedy that the world will never forget. </div>

McNally's Dilemma

<div>A seductive socialite entangles a Palm Beach sleuth in a viper&rsquo;s nest of lust and larceny in this New York Times bestseller. Checking out the background of a wealthy client&rsquo;s prospective daughter-in-law should be easy money for Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally&mdash;until people around gorgeous socialite Theodosia Johnson start being killed off at an alarming rate. The first to die is Theodosia&rsquo;s portrait painter, who gets his throat slashed. Next, a blackmailing stripper ends up with a bullet in her head. McNally must expose the killer, but it&rsquo;s Theodosia, herself, who turns out to be the biggest mystery of all. When she sets out to seduce McNally, he isn&rsquo;t sure whether he&rsquo;s being played, so he orchestrates his own scam to uncover the truth. If his scheme backfires, it could cost the dapper detective his livelihood&mdash;and his life. </div>

McNally's Risk

<div>Family ties ensnare Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s Archy McNally, &ldquo;a raffish combination of Dashiell Hammett&rsquo;s Nick Charles and P. G. Wodehouse&rsquo;s Bertie Wooster&rdquo; (The New York Times Book Review). Bestselling author Sabrina Wright wants dapper detective Archy McNally to find her husband, who vanished while looking for her MIA daughter&mdash;it may seem like a simple case, but McNally knows it&rsquo;s never that easy. Thirty-year-old Gillian Wright ran off to find her birth father, opening a Pandora&rsquo;s box of scandalous revelations the tabloids can&rsquo;t resist. It seems that Sabrina&rsquo;s life was a bigger fiction than her bodice-ripping romances. Before her story is over, three powerful men with damning secrets could be outed . . . and murder will be the denouement. As McNally stumbles on one cover-up after another, he has one last chance to catch a killer who will stop at nothing to protect his name. </div>

McNally's Chance

<div>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&rsquo;s thrust. The victim lived in an eighteen-room duplex on Fifth Avenue with his wife, daughter, son, and daughter-in-law. Conti must look into the lives of this privileged clan before deciding whether to pay out Lewis Starrett&rsquo;s life insurance policy. As it turns out, their family affairs are a seething viper&rsquo;s nest of lust, adultery, and escalating violence. The body count rises&mdash;along with Conti&rsquo;s growing desire for burnt-out cop John Wenden.</div>

The Seventh Commandment

<div>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 Rita and her seductive prey collide, all bets are off. Now Rita&rsquo;s living the life of Riley, playing in David&rsquo;s glittering high-society world of polo, charity balls, and pleasure cruises. As she circles the south Florida playgrounds of Palm Beach and Miami, Rita gets closer to her mark and becomes vulnerable to the biggest con of all: love. Sullivan&rsquo;s Sting is one of Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s most irresistible novels, with its ambitious plot and the mystery master&rsquo;s trademark cast of unforgettable characters.</div>

Sullivan's Sting

<div>From the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author: Florida PI Archy McNally takes on a deceptively simply 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&rsquo;s venerable law firm. His latest assignment? Solve a simple catnapping. But, as McNally knows, things are rarely as simple as they seem. Soon, the case of the missing Peaches, a foul-tempered, overweight Persian, morphs into the murder of a prominent Palm Beach woman. Uncovering a chilling connection between the two cases sends McNally into a psychological game of cat and mouse. As he lays a trap that could be catnip for the killer, he is faced with the reality that felines may have nine lives but he has only one. </div>

McNally's Luck

<div>The #1New York Times&ndash;bestselling author proves that he is indeed &ldquo;a master of suspense&rdquo; in this thriller of a covetous clergyman (The Washington Post). Joshua Bigg, an investigator for a Manhattan law firm, usually spends his days tracking down witnesses and verifying clients&rsquo; 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 when he probes the disappearance of one client and the suspicious suicide of another. Professor Yale Stonehouse left his apartment one night, without saying anything to his wife, and never returned. Sol Kipper plunged to his death from the top floor of his Upper East Side townhouse. With little to go on, Bigg enlists the help of a cop, and uncovers a shocking connection between the two cases: a corrupt clergyman who preys on the lonely and bereaved. Desperate to stop the stone-cold killer who uses religion to mete out his own brand of justice, Bigg has to prove that no one is above God&mdash;or the law.</div>

The Tenth Commandment

<div>The Palm Beach sleuth tries to find a thief&mdash;and a killer&mdash;among a rich, eccentric family, in this New York Times bestseller. 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 Picasso and an irreplaceable Edgar Allan Poe first edition. Suspects abound, including the sexy Forsythe women who all seem to find McNally irresistible. But things take a nasty turn when Griswold is murdered. Who wanted to off the family patriarch&mdash;and why? Inside the lavish, baronial estate, McNally&rsquo;s uncovering some pretty damning dirt, including illegitimate offspring and a resident ghost. As things heat up, McNally had better watch his back&mdash;or he, himself, could end up six feet under. </div>

McNally's Caper

<div>Murder puts Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s Palm Beach PI in the prime suspect spotlight in the series &ldquo;effortlessly written to be effortlessly enjoyed&rdquo; (The Boston Globe). Hired to retrieve a client&rsquo;s kiss-and-tell-all diary from her blackmailing ex-lover, Archy McNally doesn&rsquo;t expect the mission to go awry. He makes the exchange easily enough, but as the Palm Beach private investigator returns to his sports car, he&rsquo;s knocked out cold. When he wakes up, the diary is gone. Except it wasn&rsquo;t a diary McNally was playing go-between to collect. It was the Holy Grail of lost literature&mdash;the original manuscript of Truman Capote&rsquo;sAnswered Prayers. McNally will need some divine intervention of his own when he becomes the prime suspect in a homicide investigation headed by vampy, green-eyed blonde Georgia O&rsquo;Hara. With everyone trying to seize the Capote opus, it&rsquo;s up to McNally to write off a killer who&rsquo;s waiting to close the book on him&mdash;permanently. </div>

McNally's Alibi

<div>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 &ldquo;financial intelligence&rdquo;&mdash;and often investigates murder and mayhem, too. In &ldquo;Run, Sally, Run!,&rdquo; Timothy Cone investigates insider leaks in a New York investment banking house, and faces the ruthless Sally Steiner, who&rsquo;s willing to do anything to succeed in a man&rsquo;s world. &ldquo;A Case of the Shorts&rdquo; opens with a bang: The CEO of a powerful Wall Street firm is gunned down in his limo. Cone is dispatched, ostensibly to uncover evidence of industrial sabotage. But what he finds is a simmering hornet&rsquo;s nest of greed, passion, and betrayal. A Chinese food corporation on the New York Stock Exchange raises red flags in &ldquo;One From Column A.&rdquo; When the elderly CEO of White Lotus employs Cone&rsquo;s company to investigate, Cone is soon tangling with kidnapping, extortion, and the Asian mafia, and it&rsquo;s hard to tell who&rsquo;s scamming whom.</div>

Timothy's Game

<div>&ldquo;Thou shalt not steal is indeed the moral in this light-as-a-bubble comic caper&rdquo; by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author (People). Appraising rare coins for Grandby &amp; 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 numismatist becomes the number-one suspect. Placed on indefinite leave, Bateson enlists the help of a New York Police Department cop and an insurance detective to go behind the closed doors of one of New York&rsquo;s most powerful and untouchable families. The Havistocks are keeping some dangerous secrets, including a kleptomaniac daughter, a sex-addicted daughter-in-law, and a sleazy nest of adultery, pornography, and damning secrets someone is willing to kill to keep.</div>

The Eighth Commandment

<div>Three provocative novels of adventure, sex, and sin from the New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of the Edward X. Delaney Series In The Seduction of Peter S., an out-of-work actor gets picked up by an older woman, and together they hatch an outrageous scheme, recruiting New York&rsquo;s handsomest thespians and putting them to work in the world&rsquo;s oldest profession. The doyennes of the Upper East Side can have any actor they want&mdash;for a price. The Case of Lucy Bending is an erotic thriller like no other. Among the rich and famous of Florida&rsquo;s gold coast, a beautiful and precocious young girl is surrounded by adults who think only of money, power, murder, and vengeance. Will a child psychiatrist be able to save Lucy Bending from the world around her? It&rsquo;s a deadly proposition. A hardboiled insurance investigator, Wolf Lannihan has tangled with some of the world&rsquo;s most dangerous femme fatales&mdash;and lived to tell the tale. Tales of the Wolf chronicles Lannihan&rsquo;s bawdiest, craziest stories, and shows how he always gets his woman. These three books by legendary thriller writer Lawrence Sanders display precisely what makes his work so addictive. No one writes smarter, sexier stories than the creator of the Edward X. Delaney Series. </div>

The Lawrence Sanders Thriller Collection Volume One

<div>Three gripping novels from the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling &ldquo;master of suspense&rdquo; and author of the Edward X. Delaney Series (The Washington Post). Whether the threat is technological, political, or up close and personal, the Edgar Award&ndash;winning author of the Commandment thrillers always keeps the tension running high. Included in this special volume are: The Tomorrow File: In the future, the government controls every aspect of its citizens&rsquo; lives, from their gender and their genes to where they work, what they eat, and how they love. Lawrence Sanders tells the story of what happens to utopia when people get fed up with pleasure, and stand up to fight for their right to live how they choose&mdash;and die for what they believe in. The Passion of Molly T.: Activism runs rampant on the college campus where young Molly Turner seeks vengeance after her radical feminist girlfriend is killed by homophobic bigots, drawing a fine line between justice and mayhem. Capital Crimes: His name is Brother Kristos, and to the president of the United States, he is a savior, a holy man who has been able to do something no doctor could manage: heal the president&rsquo;s son. But as the president relies more and more on the mystic, the country slips toward chaos&mdash;and an explosive finale. These three novels show the world on the brink of disaster. Whether set in the distant future or the here and now, the thrillers in this three-volume omnibus will prove impossible to put down.</div>

The Lawrence Sanders Thriller Collection Volume Two

<div>A playboy PI becomes entangled with passion, murder, and unabashed greed in these three adventures by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Privileged bachelor Archy McNally enjoys sipping late-night port with his girlfriend of the moment and tooling around South Florida in his red Miata sports car. Only occasionally does he get around to doing actual work as a part-time investigator for his father&rsquo;s law firm. In these three witty novels, he&rsquo;s paid to make discreet inquiries for Palm Beach&rsquo;s elite&mdash;who are rarely what they seem. McNally&rsquo;s Secret: When Lady Cynthia Horowitz&rsquo;s priceless 1918 US airmail stamps go missing from her plantation-style mansion, McNally unearths a shocking secret that could expose his own family&rsquo;s skeletons. His search thrusts him into a thickening maze of sex, scandal, blackmail, and murder. McNally&rsquo;s Luck: McNally&rsquo;s latest assignment is a simple catnapping. But, as McNally knows, things are rarely as simple as they seem. Soon, the case of the missing foul-tempered, overweight Persian morphs into the murder of a prominent Palm Beach woman. And when McNally uncovers a chilling connection between the two cases, he&rsquo;s plunged into a psychological game of cat and mouse. McNally&rsquo;s Risk: Checking out the background of a wealthy client&rsquo;s prospective daughter-in-law should be easy&mdash;but when the people around Theodosia Johnson start being killed off, McNally must expose the murderer. Theodosia herself is the biggest mystery though. And as she sets out to seduce McNally, he&rsquo;ll have to orchestrate his own scam to uncover the truth.</div>

The Archy McNally Series Volume One

<div>New York City cop Edward X. Delaney solves a string of murder cases in these first two novels in the series by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author. Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward X. Delaney. The Edgar Award&ndash;winning Sanders would follow up with three more Deadly Sins novels&mdash;each one a New York Times bestseller&mdash;proving himself again and again to be &ldquo;a master&rdquo; (The New Yorker). The First Deadly Sin: 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. No robbery, no known motive. The commissioner appoints Delaney to head up a secret investigation. As more young men are murdered in the same way, Delaney starts putting the pieces together, even as he&rsquo;s distracted by the serious illness of his wife. Soon, he&rsquo;s faced with a cop&rsquo;s dilemma: He knows who the killer is, but the person is untouchable. That&rsquo;s when Delaney lays a trap to bring a monster to justice . . . &ldquo;Breathtakingly exciting.&rdquo; &mdash;Newsday The Second Deadly Sin: World-renowned artist Victor Maitland is dead&mdash;found in his Mott Street studio stabbed repeatedly in the back. With no clear leads or suspects, the NYPD calls Chief Edward Delaney out of retirement. Following a winding path of greed, deception, and fraud, Delaney uncovers a long line of suspects that includes Maitland&rsquo;s wife, son, and mistress. When a second murder rocks Manhattan&rsquo;s art world, Delaney moves closer to the truth about what kind of a man&mdash;or monster&mdash;Maitland really was. But which of the artist&rsquo;s enemies was capable of killing him and leaving no trail? &ldquo;Sanders is a pro!&rdquo; &mdash;Los Angeles Times</div>

The Deadly Sins Novels Volume One

<div>The Palm Beach private eye is back&mdash;in three more adventures by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and &ldquo;master of suspense&rdquo; (The Washington Post). In his long-running, New York Times&ndash;bestselling mystery series set in South Florida, Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Lawrence Sanders gave readers &ldquo;his most delightful character&rdquo;&mdash;a charming playboy turned Palm Beach PI by the name of Archy McNally (Chicago Tribune). McNally&rsquo;s Caper: In this New York Times bestseller, Griswold Forsythe II wants to know which greedy, conniving relative is making off with the family treasures, including an original Picasso and an irreplaceable Edgar Allan Poe first edition. Suspects abound, including the sexy Forsythe women who all seem to find McNally irresistible. But things take a nasty turn when Griswold is murdered. McNally&rsquo;s Trial: In the past six months, Whitcomb Funeral Homes in southern Florida has shipped out five hundred dead bodies. Why are so many caskets leaving the Sunshine State and being airlifted to New York, Boston, and Chicago? Called in to investigate, McNally&rsquo;s about to blow the lid off a most unusual case in this New York Times bestseller. McNally&rsquo;s Puzzle: Hiram Gottschalk, the owner of the Palm Beach shop Parrots Unlimited, fears for his life. He turns to McNally after someone slashes a photo of him and his late wife and then wrings the neck of his beloved pet bird. Turns out he was right to be scared. When his client is stabbed in his sleep, McNally&rsquo;s determined to ruffle some feathers to find the killer.</div>

The Archy McNally Series Volume Two

<div>The final two cases in the series by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author&mdash;plus the Edgar Award&ndash;winning debut novel that introduced Edward Delaney. Lawrence Sanders&rsquo;s first novel in the Deadly Sins series became a New York Times bestseller and was made into an acclaimed film starring Frank Sinatra as hard-bitten New York City homicide detective Edward Delaney. Sanders would follow up with three more Deadly Sins novels&mdash;each one a New York Times bestseller&mdash;proving himself again and again to be &ldquo;a master&rdquo; (The New Yorker). This collection also includes Sanders&rsquo;s first novel, completed at age fifty, The Anderson Tapes, which introduced Edward Delaney and won an Edgar Award, and was made into a film starring Sean Connery. The Third Deadly Sin: By day, she&rsquo;s an unassuming middle-aged secretary. By night, dressed in a midnight-black wig, a skin-tight dress, and spike heels, she prowls smoky hotel bars for prey. Inside her leather bag are keys, cash, mace, and a Swiss Army knife. Her first victim&mdash;a convention guest at an upscale Manhattan hotel&mdash;is found dead with multiple stab wounds. Edward Delaney has come out of retirement to stop the so-called Hotel Ripper, who has seized the city in a chokehold of panic. But he&rsquo;s not expecting the killer to be a woman. &ldquo;A first-rate thriller . . . as good as you can get.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times The Fourth Deadly Sin: With no leads and a case getting colder by the hour, the NYPD calls in former chief Edward Delaney to solve the grisly murder of Dr. Simon Ellerbee, a noted Upper East Side psychiatrist, who not only had his skull bashed in by a ball-peen hammer but had his eyes mutilated. It&rsquo;s up to the veteran detective to analyze the symbolism of the attack and study the doctor&rsquo;s patients to find out which one of them wanted to hammer home a point. &ldquo;Not to be missed.&rdquo; &mdash;Kansas City Star The Anderson Tapes: 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. Enlisting a crew of scouts, con artists, and a getaway driver, Anderson orchestrates what he believes to be a foolproof plan. To pull off the big score, he needs one last thing: the permission of the local mafia, who expect a piece of the action. But no one inside Anderson&rsquo;s operation knows that the police have recorded their conversations. The NYPD has hatched a plot of its own&mdash;but even its task force may not be enough to stop such a cunningly planned robbery. &ldquo;The novel races forward, accelerating in action and suspense.&rdquo; &mdash;TheNew York Times</div>

The Deadly Sins Novels Volume Two

<div>More murder, greed, and secrets for the Palm Beach private eye created by the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author and &ldquo;master of suspense&rdquo; (The Washington Post). In his long-running, New York Times&ndash;bestselling mystery series set in South Florida, Edgar Award&ndash;winning author Lawrence Sanders gave readers &ldquo;his most delightful character&rdquo;&mdash;a charming playboy turned Palm Beach PI by the name of Archy McNally (Chicago Tribune). McNally&rsquo;s Gamble: In this New York Times bestseller, McNally is enlisted to verify the bona fides of a deal for a rare Faberg&eacute; Imperial egg. But when widow Edythe Westmore&rsquo;s children become convinced the trinket is a fake and their mother is being conned, McNally cracks open a case of lust, greed, and murder that stinks like a rotten egg. Now the detective will have to scramble to lay a trap for someone who&rsquo;s counting dividends before they hatch. McNally&rsquo;s Dilemma: In this New York Times bestseller, 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. Socialite Melva Williams confesses to offing her cheating spouse but wants her old friend Archy McNally to do her a favor: keep the press and paparazzi away from her beautiful daughter. The tempting Veronica is quite a handful, but more troubling is that her story and her mother&rsquo;s don&rsquo;t match. McNally&rsquo;s Folly: Golden Age Hollywood diva Desdemona Darling makes headlines when she agrees to star in the Palm Beach Community Theater&rsquo;s production of Arsenic and Old Lace. McNally gets roped into directing while he&rsquo;s discreetly investigating who&rsquo;s blackmailing the actress. But after Darling&rsquo;s Husband Number Seven sips some elderberry wine laced with arsenic at the cast party, McNally needs to shine a spotlight on the killer before it&rsquo;s curtains for somebody else.</div>

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