The Anderson Tapes: A Novel

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Putnam, 1970 - Fiction - 254 pages
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.

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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

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