This author was a prolific creator of suspenseful mysteries and thrillers, earning widespread acclaim for his masterful command of the genre. His works frequently delve into complex themes, celebrated for their engaging narratives and intricate plotting. The author skillfully crafted memorable characters and worlds, drawing readers into webs of tension and intrigue. His extensive catalog spans multiple series and standalone novels, showcasing a versatile talent that captivated a vast readership.
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.
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.
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 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.
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...
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.
The 1st novel in the Peter Tangent Series. International espionage, backstabbing, and secret agents. Listen to what has helped make Lawrence Sanders a household name and "mr. Bestseller".
No one delivers a shattering story of sex and suspense like bestselling author Lawrence Sanders. In this superb drama of revenge and desire, he introduces what is perhaps the deadliest twist of all--a brilliant actor, cast in the most demanding role of his career--his own death.
Lawrence Sanders's masterpieces, The First Deadly Sin , The Second Deadly Sin , and The Third Deadly Sin set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, Sanders's hero, Captain Edward X. Delaney, returns to play mind games with a killer, and uncover the most shocking sin yet. Author Biography: Lawrence Sanders, one of America's most popular novelists, was the author of more than twenty-two bestsellers.
A novel featuring the sleuth Archy McNally and set in Florida's Palm Beach.
While trying to find out which of the Forsythe clan has been stealing the family jewels, Archie McNally must fend off all the Forsythe women who have been throwing themselves at him.
Hiram Gottschalk is a wealthy widower with a paranoid son and heir, twisted twin daughters, and shady employees. Owner of bird store Parrots Unlimited, he hires Archy McNally and sidekick Binky for protection. But he is stabbed in his sleep; two clerks are killed in the Everglades. Who has the motive?
When not wining, dining, or driving his fire-engine red Miata around Palm Beach, Archy keeps discreet tabs on the wealthy clients of his father's law firm. Then one day, Edythe Westmore, a well-to-do widow, considers buying a Faberge Imperial Egg and all hell breaks loose
As an investigator for his father's Palm Beach law firm, Archy McNally has discreetly handled scores of unusual cases for the firm's upscale clientele. But when Sunny Fogarty, the attractive comptroller for Whitcomb Funeral Homes, approaches McNally & Son to investigate an unexplained rise in her company's fortunes, Archy soon finds himself conducting a most peculiar investigation.
Sex, lies, blackmail. Archy McNally is a freewheeling playboy who specializes in "Discreet Inquiries" for the rich and not-so-discreet. Beneath the glaring sun of Palm Beach - and behind the lowest crimes of high society - he is paid to keep family skeletons in the closet. But when it comes to sex and scandal, he has a few secrets of his own.
A priceless Greek coin stolen from a locked display case...A gutsy, appealing heroine determined to find it. . . a wealthy New York family concealing corruption, scandals, and perversions behind their respectable facade. . . Eleven weeks aNew York Times bestseller. "A master of suspense".--Washington Post.
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.
A powerful thriller about the doctor who broke all the laws of God and Humanity—from the writer who wrote all the rules of great suspense...
An unemployed actor walks the edge between sexy and seamy where homicide, mayhem, and the mob carve up the profits from prostitution.
Timothy Cone, the unforgettable detective introduced in The Timothy Files, returns in a case seething with scandals, scams, and gangland masssacres. And Cone plans to blow it all apart . . . unless the crooks can keep him permanently out of their way!
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.
Timothy Cone, a detective who works for a firm that investigates companies with whom its clients are contemplating big business deals, becomes involved with three baffling cases
John Tollinger, an assistant to the White House Chief of Staff, investigates a modern-day Rasputin who is beginning to wield an inordinate amount of power in Washington.
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's living the life of Riley, playing in David'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's Sting "is one of Lawrence Sanders's most irresistible novels, with its ambitious plot and the mystery master's trademark cast of unforgettable characters.
Introduces the intriguing Wolf Lannihan, a tough anti-hero investigator, as he embarks on a series of action-packed adventures
Never before in print, Private Pleasures is the sizzling new shocker from Lawrence Sanders, the bestselling master of sinfully daring suspense. A woman's love and a man's lust spark the ultimate chemical reaction...when a brilliant scientist taps into the animal urges that stir within us all. The ingredients are sex and violence. The combination is wildly explosive. And when the secret falls into the wrong hands, the outrageous consequences are pure Lawrence Sanders!
The master storyteller's most searing novel of lust, corruption, and power.Only Lawrence Sanders could have created this saga of a family that breaks all the rules -- both God's and man's. Moving from the seventies to the nineties, Guilty Pleasures invites readers into the affluent arena of shocking acts and stunning revelations that is the South Florida world of the Folsby clan. Emmet Richard Folsby: Founder of a mighty publishing empire, a patriarch to be admired -- with one unspeakable exception... Constance Louise Folsby: Emmet's wife and cofounder of the empire, now an invalid dying by degrees -- resolutely blind to the moral missteps of those she cares for... Barbara Ann Folsby: The wildcat daughter -- a fiercely ambitious businesswoman -- inexorably lured to love at its most forbidden... Brett Sherwood Folsby: The dashing playboy son, his sister's most bitter antagonist -- and a man with sexual secrets of his own... Through two decades, the Folsbys embrace their checkered destinies as Barbara and Brett battle for future control of the empire -- never guessing that a trusted family friend with a hidden agenda is quietly manipulating them all.... Lawrence Sanders's Guilty Pleasures flawlessly blends suspense and scandal to create a unique reading experience that jolts even as it fascinates.
A haunted man is lured by a seductive obsession into the ritzy world of Hollywood, where he pursues deadly dreams of betrayal and revenge that bring those he contacts to the edge of disaster. Reissue.
The nationwide bestseller that launched the career of Lawrence Sanders and introduced his most famous character, Edward X. Delaney, hero of the Deadly Sin series of novels. The novel races forward, accelerating in action and suspense.--The New York Times.
A storm of passion, betrayal and violence explodes in the world of a talented and tormented pop singer.
Palm Beach private investigator Archy McNally takes on the murder of a socialite and uncovers a thorny tangle of blackmail and deceit, south Florida style.Playboy Geoffrey Williams is dead. But it’s not a search for the killer that brings Archy McNally to the case; the lovely Melva Williams readily admits to the crime passionel. After finding Geoff in a precarious position with an attractive young lady, she pulled the trigger on husband number two. It sounds like an open-and-shut case for McNally until Melva asks Archy to shield her daughter, Veronica, from the press and paparazzi. Gallant Archy takes the case—and escorts grown-up and gorgeous Veronica home to the McNally manse. Rumors fly, and some of them may be true.Veronica is no damsel in distress, though, and she’s certainly not sorry her stepfather is in the grave. When her story doesn’t match Melva’s, which doesn’t match Geoff’s, Archy realizes he does indeed have a dilemma on his hands. Someone’s lying, and the one person who knows the truth—Geoff’s perky playmate—has gotten away.A delectable combination of high society and high jinks, and featuring some of the most eccentric characters to populace Florida’s Gold Coast, McNally’s Dilemma is as witty and charming as Archy McNally himself.
The First Deadly Sin / The Second Deadly Sin / The Third Deadly Sin
Lawrence Sanders's brilliant creation, Timothy Cone, is a one-of-a-kind stock-market op, a determined guy with a highly evolved sense of justice and a nose for a scam, even in the most refined circles. In The Timothy Files and Timothy's Game , Sanders sends his hard-boiled private eye into the dark side of the New York financial district, where the top guns and the lowlifes are often interchangeable. In this irresistible omnibus edition, Timothy is joined by sultry lady cop Rita Angela Sullivan, who brings passion, justice, and an intimacy with both sides of the law to her assignment in Sullivan's Sting .
No one knows the dark side of the heart like bestselling author Lawrence Sanders. In this erotic and explosive thriller, today's most accomplished suspense novelist takes us into the sun-and-sum-drenched inner circles of Florida's Gold Coast -- where evil can be as innocent as an eight-year-old nymphet...and innocence evil as murder.
Daniel Blank, a man ruled by cold logic and order, ambitious and self-sufficient, is introduced to Celia Montfort, a mysterious seductress who incites him to heights of ecstasy and depths of evil he has never known, including the thrill of ruthless murder. Captain Edward X. Delaney is a veteran cop who vows to track down the bloodless killer whose bizarre-shaped weapon leaves a chilling signature on all his victims.
Eli Hebron era un destacado productor cinematográfico, soñador, artista y poeta. No había conseguido aún reponerse del suicidio de su mujer, una gran estrella, cuando todo se volvió en su contra. En el deslumbrante Hollywood de 1927, en los albores del cine sonoro, la estafa era una forma de negociar y el dólar la autoridad suprema. Los que soñaban a lo grande... sufrían grandes caídas. Sexo, fama, dinero, poder, pasiones. Un nuevo gran bestseller de Lawrence Sanders.
Un thriller ipnotizzante, carico di suspense - Super bestseller
Jannie Shean es una joven y atractiva escritora de novelas policiales. Pero no logra alcanzar el éxito deseado. Sus novelas son utópicas e irreales. Resuelta a superar la situación, Jannie reúne toda su audacia y decide penetrar en el submundo del delito para conocer directamente el ambiente y sus personajes. Allí la espera una gran sorpresa. Envuelta en una sórdida e implacable intriga, la fuerza de las circunstancias la obliga a vivir una experiencia que nunca antes había imaginado. Lesley Andress es el seudónimo de un conocido escritor americano, maestro en el género. Con esta atrapante y original novela inicia otra carrera literaria, sin duda digna de la fama y la popularidad que ya ha alcanzado con su verdadero nombre.
Když si samozvaný impresário a bývalá živá dělová koule Matthew Hayes pronajme luxusní rezidenci na proslulém palmbeachském South Ocean Boulevardu, starousedlíci obracejí oči v sloup. Jakmile si ale dá za svým domem namísto obligátního bazénu a tenisového kurtu zbudovat obří zahradní bludiště po vzoru londýnského Hampton Courtu, místní smetánka se nemůže dočkat, až obdrží pozvání k slavnostnímu odhalení Podivuhodného bludiště Matthewa Hayese. Velká noc nastává a projevy úžasu a nadšení záhy vystřídají výkřiky zděšení, když je bezvládné tělo paní domu objeveno v samém centru bludiště. Policie je bezradná, neboť Hayesova komediantská minulost ukazuje k víceru možných podezřelých. Nebo jsou ve hře ještě jiné síly? Nevyzpytatelné síly, které možná ani nepocházejí z tohoto světa? Hayesova záliba v dramatických pózách každopádně celý případ pouze komplikuje a je příčinou nejméně tolika falešných stop jako celé jeho „podivuhodné bludiště". Pokud detektiv Archy McNally nechce, aby se mu vražda choti nechvalně známého pouťového podnikatele stala prvním případem, z něhož vycouvá se schlíplýma ušima, nezbývá mu než se ve spleti slepých východů pokusit dobrat pravdy a pachatele dopadnout.
V těchto třech příbězích z dusného prostředí velkoměsta Sanders představuje Timothy Conea, soukromého detektiva, který odkrývá pozadí velkého byznysu – spletitou pavučinu incestu, drogové závislosti a násilí… (www.pitaval.cz)
Román o Archy McNallym Detektivka, která se odehrává mezi příslušníky vyšší společnosti na Zlatém pobřeží na Floridě a je součástí volného cyklu o nekonvenčním vyšetřovateli. Archy McNally, mladý soukromý detektiv, pracující především pro seriózní advokátní kancelář svého otce na Palm Beach, pátrá po skutečné totožnosti dědice, který na Floridu přijel ujmout se svého majetku. Přitom se na jednom z luxusních večírků místní smetánky dostane k vraždě mladého bezvýznamného číšníka a brzy pochopí, že oba jeho případy navzájem úzce souvisejí a že odhalení skutečného pachatele se nebude mnoha lidem líbit.
Na první pohled by se mohlo zdát, že pokusy biochemika Gregoryho Barrowa nemohou sloužit zavženíhodnějším cílům: pracuje pro americkou vládu na výzkumu látek v těle, které by dokázaly proměnit vojáka v nemyslící bojový stroj. A přece, v průběhu výzkumů narazí na odbočku. Objeví v těle člověka skupinu hormonů, v nichž mají kořeny ty nejtemnější zvířecí pudy člověka. A stane se horší věc, než kdyby předal výsledky své práce vojenským špičkám - aplikuje je na dva obyčejné jedince. Na ženu, toužící po lásce a na muže, který jí chce využít pro své nejpudovější choutky. V tělech obou se rozpoutají procesy, které záhy překročí rámec prosté chemické reakce.
Kriminální román s aktuálním námětem, jímž je krádež vajíček slavné herečky, určených k oplodnění in vitro. Děj i forma tohoto příběhu, psaného rádoby s humorným nadhledem, připomínají i filmový scénář honičky s loupežníky. Autor se úporně snaží čtenáře za všech okolností zabavit, u málokterých však bude mít úspěch.
Román o zločineckém gangu, který ke své činnosti použil námět spisovatelky detektivních románů. Ve snaze, aby se její romány co nejvíce přiblížily skutečnosti, naplánuje autorka vyloupení klenotnictví. Zorganizuje loupež, najme gang a vše průběžně zachycuje ve své knize. V závěrucelé akce však zjistí, že její „spolupracovníci“ jsou lidé z podsvětí, kteří chtějí loupež dovést až do konce a že se všichni dostali do popředí zájmu mafie. Konečné vyznění pak nepostrádá určité překvapení.
Psychologický detektivní příběh z exkluzivního uměleckého prostředí. Policejní náčelník Delaney a seržant Boone v něm pátrají po pachateli vraždy úspěšného newyorského malíře.
