Titles · NYT Hardcover Fiction
The First Deadly Sin
Entered Oct 28, 1973 · peaked at #4 on Feb 3, 1974 · 24 weeks on the list, last seen Apr 14, 1974
- Book Power
- 155.9
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 14.5
- Weeks at #1
- 0
- never number one
- Top-ten weeks
- 24
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on list
- 24
- October 1973 – April 1974
Ranked by Book Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a list published by anyone else. How it works →
The run
Position by week; a gap is a spell off the list.What it earned each author
Book Power is the book's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each author's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the author had other books charting is split between them.
| Author | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lawrence Sanders | primary | 100% | 155.9 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Feb 3, 1974 on the timeline →- #1BurrGore Vidal
- #2Come Nineveh, Come TyreAllen Drury
- #3The Honorary ConsulGraham Greene
- #4The First Deadly SinLawrence Sanders
- #5The Hollow HillsMary Stewart
- #6Theophilus NorthThornton Wilder
- #7Postern of FateAgatha Christie
- #8The Eye of the StormPatrick White
- #9Nickel MountainJohn Gardner
- #10Band of BrothersErnest K. Gann