Garry Shandling, Author, Lawrence Sanders, Author, David Rensin, With Simon & Schuster $23 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-81204-5
In its six seasons on HBO (until May 1998), the Larry Sanders Show served as a savage satire of the ego-obsessed world of Hollywood. Walking a thin line between fantasy and reality (real celebrities appeared as some version of themselves), host...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam $21.95 (351p) ISBN 978-0-399-13611-5
Murder, greed, lust, corruption and an extraordinary preoccupation with food and drink--trademarks of Sanders's Deadly Sin and Commandment bestsellers--are here, yet this tale lacks the passion needed to engage readers fully. When New York City...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam Publishing Group $23.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-399-14006-8
Suggesting a morally bankrupt, sun-tanned Bertie Wooster, Archy McNally sleuths among Florida's well-heeled Palm Beach set in this lightweight crime series from the author of the Deadly Sins and Commandments thrillers. Archy, an occasional...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-399-13426-5
Within the first few pages of Sanders's disappointing 20th novel, we are introduced to a latter-day Rasputin--a wild-eyed, lustful ``holy man'' who preaches out of a ramshackle barn in Virginia--and have had a glimpse of his kinky sexual practices....
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (382p) ISBN 978-0-399-13368-8
Timothy Cone, Sanders's shabbily dressed, tough-talking, razor-witted Wall Street dick, is back at his special game in three dazzlingly plotted stories that might have been subtitled (to borrow the words of Cone's feisty girlfriend and boss): ``The...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam Publishing Group $18.95 (381p) ISBN 978-0-399-13125-7
Sanders's legion of fans will be disappointed by this caper/suspense tale that is clearly a lesser effort by the bestselling novelist. Six-foot-two and every inch of her honest, Mary Lou ""Dunk'' Bateson is a coin appraiser at a New York auction...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Berkley Publishing Group $7.5 (284p) ISBN 978-0-425-08473-1
In this steamy, laconic thriller, Sanders, author of the four Deadly Sin novels, twists the classic triangle of love and intrigue into an intricate figure of corners, loopholes and, ultimately, dead ends. For reasons never stated, Harry Dancer, an...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.15 (380p) ISBN 978-0-399-13261-2
These three detective tales may not have quite the panache of The Anderson Tapes or the Deadly Sin series, but each is suspenseful, well wrought and stamped with Sanders's special insight into the baser aspects of human nature. They feature Timothy...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author Avon Books $4.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-380-75145-7
Readers won't be surprised that each of these short stories appeared previously among explicit photos of naked women in Swank. In almost every episode, narrator ""Wolf'' Lannihan, an insurance investigator, takes a tumble with a well-endowed and/or...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author, Vincent Lardo, Author . Putnam $24.95 (311p) ISBN 978-0-399-15189-7
This wacky, waggish whodunit is the sixth McNally title under the able authorship of novelist Lardo (The Hampton Affair
), who took up the reins from the late Lawrence Sanders with 1999's McNally's Dilemma
. When Archy is invited to attend...
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Lawrence Sanders, Author, JR. Thomas Sanders, Author Berkley Trade Pub $6.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-425-11872-6
This relatively short paperback original by the wildly successful Sanders ( Timothy's Game ) is candy-bar reading--a treat whose pleasures are short-lived and fast-fading. Marilyn Taylor, the ``Most Beautiful Woman in the World,'' a Hollywood...
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