Lawrence Sanders (March 15, 1920 – February 7, 1998) was an American novelist.

Lawrence Sanders was born in Brooklyn. After public school he went to Wabash College where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree. He returned to New York and started to work at Macy's Department Store. In 1943 he joined the United States Marine Corpsand was discharged in 1946. Sanders was a former magazine editorial writer and later truned to a full-time fiction writer. Sanders wrote his first novel, the Anderson Tapes in 1970 at the age of 50. It deals with a plot by a group of criminals to rob a luxury apartment building. In 1971, Sanders received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for best first novel.

lawrence Sanders bibliography

• The Anderson Tapes (Edgar Award) (1970)
• The Pleasures of Helen (1971)
• Love Songs (1972)
• The First Deadly Sin (1973)
• The Tomorrow File (1975)
• The Tangent Objective (1976)
• The Marlow Chronicles (1977)
• The Second Deadly Sin (1977)
• The Tangent Factor (1978)
• The Sixth Commandment (1979)
• Dark Summer (as 'Mark Upton') (1979)
• Caper (as 'Lesley Andress') (1980)
• The Tenth Commandment (1980)
• The Third Deadly Sin (1981)
• The Case of Lucy Bending (1982)
• The Seduction of Peter S. (1983)
• The Passion of Molly T. (1984)
• The Fourth Deadly Sin (1985)
• The Eighth Commandment (1986)
• Tales of the Wolf (1986)
• Tales of the Wolf (short stories) (1986)
• The Loves of Harry Dancer (1986)
• Dream Lover (1987)
• The Timothy Files (novellas) (1987)
• Timothy's Game (novellas) (1988)
• The Dream Lover (1988)
• Stolen Blessings (1989)
• Sullivan's Sting (1990)
• The Seventh Commandment (1991)
• McNally's Secret (1992)
• McNally's Luck (1992)
• McNally's Risk (1993)
• McNally's Caper (1994)
• Private Pleasures (1994)
• Capitol Crimes (1995)
• McNally's Trial (1995)
• McNally's Puzzle (1996)
• McNally's Gamble (1997)
• Guilty Pleasures (1998)

Written with or by Vincent Lardo

• McNally's Dilemma (1999)
• McNally's Folly (2000)
• McNally's Chance (2001)
• McNally's Alibi (2002)
• McNally's Dare (2003)
• McNally's Bluff (2004)