Lawrence Sanders
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[1970]
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The explosive Edgar Award–winning debut novel—told entirely through surveillance recordings, eyewitness reports, and other “official” documents—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...
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...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 3
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[1993]
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Private detective Archy McNally is hired by a formidable matron and gets involved in murder and scams.
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 6
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Veteran Palm Beach sleuth Archy McNally puzzles over the death of a bird store owner in this latest by the prolific author of 20 best sellers. Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 5
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Everyone's favorite playboy-turned-sleuth, Archy McNally, is back in Palm Beach. This time, he's investigating the deathstyles of the rich and famous--in particular, a strange increase in business at the posh funeral homes owned by the wealthy Whitcomb clan. There seem to be more caskets than corpses and more family secrets than family members.
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 7
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Archy lives a life most people only dream about. As Chief of Discreet Inquiries at his father's white-shoe law firm, Arch keeps tabs on the rich and famous while keeping hours only a barfly could love. When well-to-do widow Edythe Westmore is urged to buy a Faberge Imperial egg, her adult offspring violently oppose the investment and enlist Archy's services to put the kibosh on the deal.
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When a rare coin vanishes, an appraiser tries to clear her name - and exposes one family's lethal secrets. Appraising rare coins for Grandby & 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...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 4
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Called in by patriarch Griswold Forsythe II - a client of Archy's father, who even the closemouthed senior McNally admits is pretty dull - our happy-go-lucky sleuth commences a covert search to discover which intimate relative is lifting the family valuables piece by piece.
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 2
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Sex, suspense, sheer entertainment--Mcnally's Luck is LawrenceSanders' seductive game of cat and mouse (and murder). Playboy/lover/sleuth ArchyMcNally is back--and the secrets of the filthy rich have never been filthier...What beginswith a kidnapped cat leads to ransom and homicide. And if a sensuous psychic makes abeliever out of McNally, he'll learn that humans don't have none lives...but scandals do.
10) McNally's folly
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 9
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c2000
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When the Palm Beach Community Theater needs a director for their production of Arsenic and Old Lace, Archy tosses his megaphone into the ring. After all, Hollywood legend Desdemona Darling will lend her considerable talents to the production. And while resident grand dame Lady Cynthia Horowitz wants a little of the spotlight to fall on her latest live-in-hunk, Buzz Carr, she has no intention of letting Buzz rehearse all day with the actress who, like...
11) Sullivan's sting
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[1990]
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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...
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c1981
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Retired cop Edward X. Delaney takes on a female serial killer in this spine-tingling masterwork of suspense by New York Times bestselling author Lawrence Sanders. By day, she'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'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...
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[1979]
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Samuel Todd, field investigator for the Bingham Foundation, discovers that a conspiracy of silence surrounds the research being conducted by Telford Gordon Thorndecker who heads both Crittenden Hall, nursing home for the well-to-do, and Crittenden Research Lab.
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c1977
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A taut and gripping tale that sets police detective Edward Delaney on the trail of a vicious criminal in New York's art world A month ago, world-renowned artist Victor Maitland was found dead in his Mott Street studio-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's bored by his free time. He welcomes...
18) Guilty pleasures
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"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 of a daughter, a fiercely ambitious business-woman, inexorably lured to love at its most forbidden... Brett Sherwood Folsby: The dashing...
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 1
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c1992
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On the Gold Coast of Florida, playboy investigator Archy McNally is called in to retrieve some priceless stamps that have been stolen.
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Archy McNally mysteries volume 5
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c1995
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Chief of Discreet Inquiries Archy McNally is asked to find out why the Whitcomb Funeral Homes have had such a profitable and drastic increase in outof-state burials and where the bodies are going.