The Second Deadly Sin

Lawrence Sanders

G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005 - Fiction - 412 pages

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?

Contents

• Section 1: 5
• Section 2: 27
• Section 3: 43

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Second Deadly Sin; Volume 3 of Deadly sins
• Author: Lawrence Sanders
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005
• ISBN: 0425200396, 9780425200391
• Length: 412 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / General; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / General; Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense