The First Deadly Sin (The Edward X. Delaney Series Book 1) by Lawrence Sanders (Epub)

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New York Police Department Captain Edward Delaney is called to the scene of a brutal murder. A Brooklyn councilman was struck from behind, the back of his skull punctured and crushed with an unknown weapon. The victim wasn’t robbed, and there’s no known motive. The commissioner appoints Delaney to head up a clandestine task force, but soon this effort ignites an internecine war of departmental backstabbing. Distracted by the serious illness of his wife, Barbara, Delaney begins his secret investigation. Then the killer claims another victim—slain in the exact same way, leaving the strange puncture wound. As more young men are found murdered, Delaney starts putting the pieces together. Soon, he’s faced with a cop’s dilemma: He knows who the killer is, but the man is untouchable. That’s when Delaney lays a trap to bring a monster to justice . . .

User’s Reviews

Review “A master of suspense.” —The Washington Post“Breathtakingly exciting!” —Newsday

Reviews from Amazon users, collected at the time the book is getting published on UniedVRG. It can be related to shiping or paper quality instead of the book content:

⭐ For some reason, I persisted to the end of this overblown novel, maybe because I thought nothing published could possibly be this bad and surely it would get better. The novel is at least twice as long as it should have been. But even had it been a reasonable length, it would still have been awful in every respect. The sex is gratuitous and salacious; the descriptions are mind-numbingly tedious; the detective, supposedly a veteran of the police officer, conducts the investigation like an amateur, seemingly making it up as he goes along; the characterizations are inconsistent and implausible; the ending is absurd; the subplot of the dying wife in the hospital is a pointless distraction. What a waste of time and money.

⭐ Lawrence Sanders’ The First Deadly Sin — Not without some merit. The author has an impressive vocabulary and a great command of English (a wordsmith). However Deadly Sin is, long, tedious and overly descriptive. I mean, when you describe a character, one does not benefit from pages upon pages of unnecessary details, describing them and everyone they have ever known.. But, I could have suffered that, had it not been for the VERY DISAPPOINTING ENDING. Save your time and money for a novel by: Robert Parker, Michael Connelly, or Lee Child.6/6/2019 Addendum: I know, sex sells; But the author’s fixation on Aberrant sex and homosexuality is a turnoff…. At least for me it was.

⭐ This book was Lawrence Sanders second and came out when he was in his 50s. I believe later his books may have been airport novels written by other people, which may have tarnished his image somewhat. In The First Deadly Sin, the master is firing on all cylinders.A truly outstanding novel I first read in the 70s and recently downloaded on Kindle wondering if it would still hold up after all this time. I needn’t have worried.

⭐ Lawrence Sanders has been a favorite of mine. The majority of his work has been of a serious nature, the “Deadly Sin” series particularly. Sanders has an ability to create characters over a series who will work their way into your imagination…at leas…if not your heart.In addition to this series, he has penned the Commandment series, and the somewha humorous and lighthearted Archey McNally books.In my experience, it’s a good idea to start reading a Sanders novel when you have a couple of days free; they are.all hard to put doen.

⭐ I read the Delaney books when they were first published and loved them. This one has not aged well. It is far too long for no reason other than to impress on us what a tough old bird Delaney is. The story is mildly interesting up to the point where Delaney is placed in charge of the investigation. From this point on it becomes a cartoon. Command post, passwords, code names. Trying to turn what should be a simple, straightforward surveillance into a military action. Anyone spending the kind of money this would cost would be fired in a week or laughed out of the job by the men he was commanding.

⭐ I read the book before I saw the movie — but, over the course of time, lost the book (I probably donated it to a library).After finally getting a letterboxed version of the film (a DVD-R), and reading the sole surviving Sanders book in my collection (The Passion of Molly T.), I decided to get this one again. I hope to continue with the series, given enough time.This is the story of Edward X Delaney, who faces off against his own bureaucratic (in the worst possible sense) bosses and a killer who strikes without warning. Meanwhile, his wife’s medical conditioning is worsening, destroying his personal life.If you have seen the movie — do not assume that you know the story in the book. A lot of changes were made.Indeed, they are so different (despite both pursuing the two-line summary above) that they really can’t be compared.

⭐ This is an unemotional telling of the story of Edward Delaney, a New York police captain, whose wife is slowly dying from an infection that can’t be cured with antibiotics. He wants to retire to focus on his wife but there’s a gruesome murder and in the midst of city politics, Delaney choose to look into murder (and those that follow), using amateur contacts he has collected over the years to work through the backbreaking paperwork and narrow the suspects.The beginning — in which we are introduced and get to know the mindset of the murderer — is a bit slow and long but once the first murder happens, the action picks up perceptively, only slowing down toward the end. Interesting writing by going back and forth between what Delaney thinks and does, and then a chapter on what the murder is thinking and doing.

⭐ This is not really a who-dun-it detective story, since we are told who the villain is at the very beginning. It is very much a taut, extremely detailed psychological thriller, with a protagonist who is a mixed bag. Sanders does extremely well with the story, the dialogue (especially cop dialogue) and plotting, but he gives TOO many details, from food to dress to house design, unnecessarily dragging this book out to over 600 pages. Written in 1973, it is also somewhat quaint and anachronistic in its sexism and racism. But Sanders does a masterful job of weaving the “deadly sin” of each character together into a marvelous whole. Definitely worth reading.

⭐ I Love police procedurals and thrillers. The premise of this book and description of the ‘procedures’ were good BUT it was VERY repetitive and SOOOOO detailed I became a little bored in places. Sanders created very intricate characters. Like none I’ve heard of before (which I liked). This book takes place many years ago before some of our more ‘modern’ tools for police work but I had always heard of these books and how popular they were when they came out so I thought I’d give it a try. The fact they are older doesn’t bother me as ‘I’ remember those days w/o those ‘modern’ tools (like cell phones :-), e.g.). I like Edward X. Delaney’s character but I am not so sure I want to read the next ‘Sins’ book as it may be more of the same and I might find that a little torturous to get through.

⭐ Sanders is always a good page turner. I find his writing satisfying, I put him in my reading along with John Fowles for style and use of English . The characters are clearly and well constructed and the plots develop at a believable rate, I have read all the Edward X Delaney books, all the Archy MacNally and am working through the ‘rest’! It will be a sad day for me when there are none left to have.

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