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Books : The 2nd Deadly SinIn association with Amazon.comby: Lawrence Sanders  List Price: $80.00 Price: $22.95 You Save: $57.05 (71%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN: 9780736644921 ISBN: 073664492X Label: Books on Tape, Inc. Manufacturer: Books on Tape, Inc. Publication Date: April 20, 1999 Publisher: Books on Tape, Inc. Studio: Books on Tape, Inc. Sales Rank: 1914071 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: 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? Average Rating:
 Rating:  - This Book Had Me...Chewing my nails from cover-to-cover. I enjoy books of this genre and would like to say if you are a reader like me...that being one who reads almost anything I can get my hands on...well, then, this is one book you won't want to miss out on! Rating:  - Pretty dern goodBook 2 in the "Heather reads crime novels" series! And this was a much better experience than my first Patricia Cornwell book. While Patricia Cornwell does forensic mysteries, this one is an old-school whodunit. The characters were well written, and the plot believable. Best of all, unlike Cornwell, I didn't figure out the culprit before the Edward X. Delaney did. And that, my friends, is the mark of a good crime novel. So a famous New York artist is murdered, and everybody has ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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