William L. Deandrea

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  • Bibliography:
    25 Books (4 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1979
  • Latest Book:
    January 2003
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Full Series List in Order

Clifford Driscoll

1 - Cronus (Nov-1984)
2 - Snark (1985)
3 - Azrael (Jul-1987)
4 - Atropos (Jan-1990)

A Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Mystery

1 - Written In Fire (1995)
2 - The Fatal Elixir (Mar-1997)

A Matt Cobb Mystery

1 - Killed in the Ratings (1979)
2 - Killed in the Act (Oct-1981)
3 - Killed With a Passion (Feb-1983)
4 - Killed on the Ice (May-1984)
5 - Killed in Paradise (Jul-1988)
6 - Killed on the Rocks (Oct-1990)
7 - Killed in Fringe Time (Nov-1995)
8 - Killed in the Fog (Nov-1996)

A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery

1 - The Hog Murders (Oct-1979)
2 - The Werewolf Murders (May-1992)
3 - The Manx Murders (Jul-1994)

Book List in Order: 25 titles

  • Killed in the Ratings

    • / Amateur Sleuth
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    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 1

    FIRST AVON PRINTING, April 1979 mass market paperback, William L. DeAndrea (The Werewolf Murders). Cobb's no stranger to following mysterious orders, so when he receives a telephone call asking him to visit a hotel room he obliges. The invitation, ho...

  • The Hog Murders

    A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery - 1

    TO COMMIT THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME The little town of Sparta, New York has been having a hellish winter. Certainly it's not the record snowfall or the. Arctic temperatures that are making things hot. What's got the local police in a sweat is a series ...

  • The Lunatic Fringe

    Teddy Roosevelt is Police Commissioner and McKinley and Bryan are challenging each other for the presidency. In an opulent sitting room, Officer Dennis Patrick Francis-Xavier Muldoon discovers the corpse of a renowned political cartoonist. On the dea...

  • Killed in the Act

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 2

    Matt Cobb scrambles to save a celebrity event turned upside down by robbery and murder Matt Cobb may not be a detective by trade, but there are times when he sure feels like one. As the VP of special projects for a television conglomerate, Cobb is an...

  • Five O'Clock Lightning

    A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of a McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium.

    In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is among the leaders who single-mindedly hunt down suspected Communis...

  • Killed With a Passion

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 3

    Returning to the quiet, upstate New York town that is the home of his alma mater and the location of the wedding of a pair of old friends, network troubleshooter Matt Cobb finds himself up against murder...

  • Killed on the Ice

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 4

    Matt Cobb deals with love and murder on the rinkIn the last installment of the popular Matt Cobb series, the TV network’s expert troubleshooter, faces a literal case of cold-blooded murder. At two in the morning, he stands in a Manhattan ice ri...

  • Cronus

    Clifford Driscoll - 1

  • Snark

    Clifford Driscoll - 2

    Clifford Driscoll, a.k.a. Bellman, the unwilling tool of the agency, seeks the missing Sir Lewis Alfot, former director of British intelligence, while trying to avoid death at the hands of American terrorist Leo Calvin...



  • Azrael

    Clifford Driscoll - 3

    Allan Trotter goes head to head with the Angel of DeathAllan Trotter’s counter-espionage service began at birth: His father, the head of an ultra-secret intelligence wing of the US government, deliberately conceived him with a gorgeous Russian ...

  • Killed in Paradise

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 5

    In a spine-tingling mystery, death follows TV network sleuth Matt Cobb to BermudaA cruise ship full of mystery writers may sound like a fantasy for some, but for Matt Cobb, whose job consists of untangling serious knots for a large television network...

  • Keep the Baby, Faith

    Pregnant, hunted, and alone, a young woman turns to the only man who can helpFaith has just enough time to dodge the speeding car. She leaps backwards and falls onto the sidewalk, breaking her thumb in an attempt to protect her pregnant belly. When s...

  • Atropos

    Clifford Driscoll - 4

    "American agent Alan Trotter is back in the fourth and last installment of DeAndrea's ( Cronos ) popular espionage series. We find Trotter recuperating from his most recent brush with death in the upstate New York home of Regina Hudson, CEO of the Hu...

  • Killed on the Rocks

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 6

    At a snowed-in retreat, a corporate takeover turns deadly A remote mansion, a blizzard, and lack of phone service: It's an opportunity a killer can't pass up. Matt Cobb, the in-house troubleshooter for a television conglomerate, is summoned to an ...

  • The Werewolf Murders

    A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery - 2

    A gathering of the world's most celebrated scientists threatens to fall apart due to a rash of vicious attacks and murders, and it happens to be a full moon. For some, rationality soon gives way to superstition. ...

  • The Manx Murders

    A Professor Niccolo Benedetti Mystery - 3

    Niccolo Benedetti takes on the mysterious case of two battling industrialist twins In Harville, Pennsylvania, two brothers are sparring. A common enough occurrence, but these ones happen to be elderly, twins, and industrialist millionaires. The tw...

  • Radio and Television

  • Written In Fire

    • / Historical Mystery
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    A Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Mystery - 1

    Three-time Edgar winner DeAndrea is no tenderfoot. The creator of both the Matt Cobb and Niccolo Benedetti books kicks off another series, starring legendary former federal marshal Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker, his friend and biographer, set in late-...

  • Killed in Fringe Time

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 7

    Matt Cobb, TV network vice president in change of special programming, finds himself lethally involved in a new mystery when his network's most popular talk-show host is suddenly murdered. By the author of Killed in the Ratings. ...



  • When Dinosaurs Ruled The Basement

    TRAPPED...IN THE LAND OF THE DINOSAURS Twelve-year-old Jon, his little brother Michael, and his best friend Gemma have made a discovery so amazing no grown-up would ever believe it -- not without proof: a baby dinosaur is loose in the basement! I...

  • Night of the Living Yogurt

    Michael, Jon, and Gemma become suspicious when the school clocks start spinning backward, the grumpy vice-principal turns friendly, and thirty-two gallons of yogurt disappear, and their investigations give way to a yogurt monster. Original....

  • Killed in the Fog

    A Matt Cobb Mystery - 8

    During a trip to England, a fog of mystery threatens Matt Cobb’s vacation—and his lifeMatt Cobb is ready to quit. His job as a special projects VP at a giant television network involves intense troubleshooting and an egotistical boss, and...

  • The Fatal Elixir

    A Lobo Blacke/Quinn Booker Mystery - 2

    Someone has doctored Dr. Theophrastus McSwainey's Mirakola, a remedy for gout, cancer, spastic colon, excessive wind, and heart palpitations, and Lobo Blacke and Quinn Booker must discover who poisoned the snake oil before someone else dies...

  • Encyclopedia Mysteriosa

  • Murder--All Kinds

    A MEMORIAL TO THE TRIPLE EDGAR WINNER!

    In his tragically short life, William L. DeAndrea (1952-1996) won the coveted Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best First Novel, Best Paperback Original, and Best Critical/Biographical Work...

Award-Winning Books by William L. Deandrea

The Hog Murders
1980 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original
Killed in the Ratings
1979 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- First Novel


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

William L. Deandrea has published 25 books.

William L. Deandrea does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Murder--All Kinds, was published in January 2003.

The first book by William L. Deandrea, Killed in the Ratings, was published in January 1979.

Yes. William L. Deandrea has 4 series.
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