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Commemorating their 25th anniversary, the "Deadly Sins" novels have been repackaged with a new slick look. "The 2nd Deadly Sin" marks the return of Edward X. Delaney in a spellbinding tale of greed, deception, and murder. It is the powerful story of the brutal killing that shocked New York City's "unshockable" art underworld.
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First time in a trade edition-- Lawrence Sanders's masterpiece, The 1st Deadly Sin, set a standard for today's novels of psychological suspense. Now, retired Captain Ed Delaney returns to a distinctly urban milieu of paranoia and impulsive violence to solve a brutal murder that shocks New York's unshockable art world. The victim is Victor Maitland. Long-considered one of the world's greatest artists, he excelled in capturing the beauty of life on canvas. In private, he destroyed whomever he pleased: his wife, his son, his mistress, his dearest friends and family. Fittingly, Maitland has paid for his sins. But in a world where self-delusion is rewarded, where greed triumphs, and where murder is just another art, who else will pay the price?
Author Notes
Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 15, 1920. He graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1942 and served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946.
After years of working as an editor for a number of magazines, including Mechanics Illustrated and Science and Mechanics, Lawrence Sanders wrote and published his first novel, The Anderson Tapes (1970), at the age of 50 which won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel from The Mystery Writers of America. It was made into a film in 1971, as was The First Deadly Sin (1973).
Sanders died February 7, 1998
(Bowker Author Biography)
Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 15, 1920. He graduated from Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1942 and served in the Marine Corps from 1943 to 1946.
After years of working as an editor for a number of magazines, including Mechanics Illustrated and Science and Mechanics, Lawrence Sanders wrote and published his first novel, The Anderson Tapes (1970), at the age of 50 which won the Edgar Award for Best First Mystery Novel from The Mystery Writers of America. It was made into a film in 1971, as was The First Deadly Sin (1973).
Sanders died February 7, 1998
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (2)
Kirkus Review
Far less kinky and more straightforwardly police-procedural than the bestselling First, Chief Ed (""Iron Balls"") Delaney's new case--taken in retirement--is the knifemurder of that throwback titan of the artworld, Victor Maitland (""If he painted a tit, it was a tit""). Delaney and semi-recovered alcoholic sidekick Abner Boone (two retch-and-regret lapses) obnoxiously hound the standard Perry-Masonic coven of suspects: wife (frigid); mistress (drug-pushiug nympho of the society page); son (Oedipally violent); agent (heavyhandedly named Geltman); and the best friend who envied Maitland's much-proclaimed but unconvincingly novelized genius. (The descriptions of Maitland's super-realistic nudes suggest a Norman Rockwell gone groinal.) A plausible tax-fraud scheme involving falsely dated, cached canvases is uncovered, but the investigation is wrapped up by a jolly black cop's tracing of an almost-eye-witness--the undesirable Hispanic hooker who saw the culprit on the scene. So, as detection, this is ordinary-minus, but Sanders piles on the homey, sandwich sentiment (Delaney's second wife is sexy perfection) and the irresistibly vulgar-phoney NY palaver; all players--including the denizens of Sanders' ludicrously muraled art scene--come on movie-sized, invariably venal, and talking that blend of Bogart & Yiddish & Lenny Bruce spoken everywhere but in life (compare, for example, Uhnak's real-cop lingo). The end-product is unquestionably lively and as readably mindless as a padded Erie Stanley Gardner can be, but, if there are going to be five more of these time-wasters, one for every sin, a little more imagination and a lot less formula would be advisable. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
Kirkus Review
Far less kinky and more straightforwardly police-procedural than the bestselling First, Chief Ed (""Iron Balls"") Delaney's new case--taken in retirement--is the knifemurder of that throwback titan of the artworld, Victor Maitland (""If he painted a tit, it was a tit""). Delaney and semi-recovered alcoholic sidekick Abner Boone (two retch-and-regret lapses) obnoxiously hound the standard Perry-Masonic coven of suspects: wife (frigid); mistress (drug-pushiug nympho of the society page); son (Oedipally violent); agent (heavyhandedly named Geltman); and the best friend who envied Maitland's much-proclaimed but unconvincingly novelized genius. (The descriptions of Maitland's super-realistic nudes suggest a Norman Rockwell gone groinal.) A plausible tax-fraud scheme involving falsely dated, cached canvases is uncovered, but the investigation is wrapped up by a jolly black cop's tracing of an almost-eye-witness--the undesirable Hispanic hooker who saw the culprit on the scene. So, as detection, this is ordinary-minus, but Sanders piles on the homey, sandwich sentiment (Delaney's second wife is sexy perfection) and the irresistibly vulgar-phoney NY palaver; all players--including the denizens of Sanders' ludicrously muraled art scene--come on movie-sized, invariably venal, and talking that blend of Bogart & Yiddish & Lenny Bruce spoken everywhere but in life (compare, for example, Uhnak's real-cop lingo). The end-product is unquestionably lively and as readably mindless as a padded Erie Stanley Gardner can be, but, if there are going to be five more of these time-wasters, one for every sin, a little more imagination and a lot less formula would be advisable. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.