This collection also includes Sanders's first novel, completed at age fifty, The Anderson Tapes, which introduced Edward Delaney. The Third Deadly Sin: By day, she's an unassuming middle-aged secretary. By night, dressed in a midnight-black wig, a skin-tight dress, and spike heels, she prowls smoky hotel bars for prey. Inside her leather bag are keys, cash, mace, and a Swiss Army knife. Her first victim-a convention guest at an upscale Manhattan hotel-is found dead with multiple stab wounds. Edward Delaney has come out of retirement to stop the so-called Hotel Ripper, who has seized the city in a chokehold of panic. But he's not expecting the killer to be a woman. The Fourth Deadly Sin: With no leads and a case getting colder by the hour, the NYPD calls in former chief Edward Delaney to solve the grisly murder of Dr. Simon Ellerbee, a noted Upper East Side psychiatrist, who not only had his skull bashed in by a ball-peen hammer but had his eyes mutilated. It's up to the veteran detective to analyze the symbolism of the attack and study the doctor's patients to find out which one of them wanted to hammer home a point. The Anderson Tapes: Newly sprung from prison, professional burglar John Anderson is preparing for the biggest heist of his criminal career. The mark is a Manhattan luxury apartment building. Enlisting a crew of scouts, con artists, and a getaway driver, Anderson orchestrates what he believes to be a foolproof plan. To pull off the big score, he needs one last thing: the permission of the local mafia, who expect a piece of the action. But no one inside Anderson's operation knows that the police have recorded their conversations. The NYPD has hatched a plot of its own-but even its task force may not be enough to stop such a cunningly planned robbery.
