Character guide · 12 books · 1970 to 1997 · Mostly set in Palm Beach

Lawrence Sanders

Crime and mystery Thriller and suspense Literary and generalPolice procedural Amateur sleuth Psychological suspense Comic fiction

Lawrence Sanders wrote bestselling crime novels. The Deadly Sins series follows Edward X. Delaney, a New York police captain with an old-fashioned moral compass; the McNally books are light comic mysteries about a dandy investigator in Palm Beach.

Best estimate, compiled from series guides, publisher descriptions and reviews where available, and from memory otherwise. Book level only, not chapter level. Minor includes cameos and brief references. Each book carries a confidence rating in its tooltip. The later McNally books were written by Vincent Lardo; only Sanders's own are charted.

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