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...mortal sin...
...People are doing it left, right and center. It's not a sin any more-it's nothing nowadays...
...SECOND DEADLY SIN...
Covetousness, for those who don't sin or don't keep count, is the second deadly sin. Pride is the first, and lust is No. 3, though not necessarily in order of popularity. In Lawrence Sanders' new novel, these and most of the other numbered transgressions come into play as someone murders Painter Victor Maitland at his studio in Lower Manhattan...
...author gives the puzzle to retired Chief of Detectives Edward X. ("Iron Balls") Delaney, who spied out the sinner in Sanders' The First Deadly Sin. Delaney's feet are flat, but his intellect is fully arched; there is no doubt he will track down the killer. That certainty is the only real shortcoming of this amiable book, in which Delaney's adoring young wife leaves love notes for her husband in the refrigerator. What might have been a tense and chancy struggle between cop and criminal is, instead, merely an interesting log of police procedure as Delaney...