Warren Murphy

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  • Bibliography:
    39 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1982
  • Latest Book:
    November 2023
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Full Series List in Order

Digger

1 - Smoked Out (Feb-1982)
2 - Fool's Flight ()
3 - Dead Letter ()
4 - Lucifer's Weekend ()

Trace

1 - Trace (Oct-1983)
2 - 47 Miles of Rope (Apr-1984)
3 - When Elephants Forget (Oct-1984)
4 - Once a Mutt (Apr-1985)
6 - Too Old a Cat (Aug-1986)
7 - Getting Up With Fleas (Mar-1987)
Pigs Get Fat (Oct-1985)

Book List in Order: 39 titles

  • Smoked Out

    Digger - 1

    HOW CRAZY DO YOU HAVE TO BE TO LIVE IN LAS VEGAS WITH A GORGEOUS, ORIENTAL, PART-TIME HOOKER -- AND CHASE KILLERS FOR A LIVING? ASK DIGGER! His mother calls him Julian. His bookie calls him Mr. Burroughs. His friends call him Digger. He changes his...

  • The Red Moon

  • Trace

    Trace - 1

    Devlin Tracy is a very good insurance investigator in a profession that rewards success. He lives in a luxury condo on the Las Vegas Strip and only works when he feels like it. He also drinks vodka by the pint, cracks wise to damn-near everyone, a...

  • 47 Miles of Rope

    Trace - 2

  • The Ceiling of Hell

  • When Elephants Forget

    Trace - 3

    Devlin Tracy is an insurance fraud investigator, and a good one. The pay's great, he lives in swingin' Las Vegas, and only has to work when he feels like it. Taking on a New York-based case for Garrison Fidelity isn't something Trace particularly ...

  • Once a Mutt

    Trace - 4

    A withdrawn widow of a once-famous animal activist comes forward with a $2 million claim, saying her furry-friendly husband has been dead for eight years. With an ocean-themed investment drying up his coffers, Trace sets out to find out if she's b...

  • Pigs Get Fat

    Trace

    "

    Thomas Collins is a commercial real estate agent with an insatiable sexual appetite. He'd do unspeakable things with a snake, a friend confides, if only he could get that low. Normally, that'd just be Mrs. Collins's business, but Mr. Collins is a...

  • Too Old a Cat

    Trace - 6

    It's trouble in paradise when a mafioso hires Trace to tail his wayward wife, who's run off and joined a crazed sex cult. As the case involving the gangster's gal turns deadly and two cantankerous cops are chomping at the bit, Chico threatens to l...



  • An Element of Surprise

    in Murder in Manhattan

  • Getting Up With Fleas

    Trace - 7

    PAPERBACK ORIGINAL FIRST EDITION, Signet #AE 4742, March 1987. Paperback original, so stated, no previous hardcover. Author's seventh book featuring Devlin and Chico Tracy as sleuths. Original $3.50 cover price, $4.50 in Canada. Disc: Paperback, 253...

  • High Priest

  • The Temple Dogs

  • Jericho Day

    Lonzo Gates, the wild man of American journalism, is unhappy: the United States and its politics have just gotten dull. "Where are the foes of yesteryear?" he wonders.
    But one night on a phone-in radio show, somebody whispers two words to him an...

  • Scorpion's Dance

  • And One for the Little Girl

    in A Body Is Found

    The authors comprising the Adams Round Table are New York City-based mystery writers whose previous offering was Murder in Manhattan . In a concept again ``created'' by Bill Adler, their tales are set in various New York neighborhoods, where corpses ...

  • Destiny's Carnival

    A mysterious carnival threatens to unleash an unspeakable evil on lovely Elissa Destin and Coley O'Brien, a rootless young wanderer, unless Coley can summon the powers that he has long denied to battle the dark forces of the supernatural...

  • Looking for Mister Green

    The Adams Round Table is today's counterpart of the legendary Algonquin Roundtable. Founded in 1982 by Mary Higgins Clark and Thomas Chastain, the members meet every month to discuss their craft and create some of the best-loved mysteries of our time...

  • Honor Among Thieves

    The FBI sends a New York mobster-turned-informant to Russia, where the Moscow police use him to penetrate the Russian mob, setting off a chain of murders and leading to a threat against the entire free world. Original....



  • A Cry From the Heart

    in Justice in Manhattan

    From the Adams Round Table, the same group of celebrated mystery authors that brought readers the national bestseller Missing in Manhattan comes this new collection of suspenseful tales set against the grimy streets and grand skyscrapers of New York ...

  • Another Day, Another Dollar

  • Collaboration

    in Murder among Friends

  • Motherly Love

    A dozen of today's masters of mystery and suspense present an all-original anthology of compelling, provocative stories, revealing that the families that play together sometimes slay together. Featuring stories by: LAWRENCE BLOCK * MARY HIGGINS ...

  • Savage Song

    She is the world's greatest entertainer; in a few brief years, she has changed show business forever and tens of millions of people follow her every move. Now it looks like someone is trying to end her career for good. She's not the kind to roll over...

  • The End of the World

    An ancient Mayan god has risen from millennia of slumber to bring about the prophesied end of the world. Skeletal and reeking of putrefaction, Cizin the Stinking One creeps into his victims' dreams, bending their minds to his apocalyptic ends, wi...

  • Number Two

    Accidents happen. The Vice President has seen enough of them: he’s seen the economy crash, foreign policy bungled, and civil liberties destroyed. When he gives speeches, he puts his foot in his mouth so often his tongue should have “welcome” pr...

  • And 47 Miles of Rope

    Devlin Tracy is a private investigator specializing in insurance fraud; the bigger the fraud, the bigger his payday. This time, the action is in Las Vegas, and he’s playing for seven-figure stakes. It’s a complicated job, but that’s why they wa...

  • The Killing Fields

    SUGAR AND SPICE......and carbon-fiber bones.Her name is 14. All she really wants is a new best friend, but it's hard to make friends with someone you're trying to kill.Stone and Freya must face off against the bionic killer while inside a nuclear dea...

  • More Blood

    Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s DESTROYER series is one of the longest-running and most successful action series in history. With more than 150 books, a TV show, a movie, a spin-off series, and much more coming soon, it shows no signs of slowing ...



  • Mother Mine

    Are Freya and Stone, the deadly assassins-in-training, ready to call it quits? When they find their pasts, will Sinanju lose its future?When Stone discovers his long-lost mother, he’s thrilled. But if he thinks that family life is going to be simpl...

  • Bloodline

    Bloodline: a gritty historical novel about the Mafia in 1920s New York, from Edgar Award-winning author Warren Murphy. The Falcones are an immigrant family living in New York City in 1920. Their patriarch, Tony, is a respected policeman. His sons,...

  • Laughing Matter

    CLOWN LIVES MATTER.Yours does not.Kwame Afoyalan is no ordinary man. He is HOMO MAGIS: a new, superior species. Haters, be warned: if you don’t believe that “Homo Magis Lives Matter,” you’re a racist, you’re a fascist -- and you’re next...

  • Assassin's Play-Off

    After a brutal fight in the streets of New Jersey, Remo and Chiun find themselves in battle after battle. Their arch-enemy and fellow assassin, the Maestro of Mayhem known as Nuihc, is hoping to knock out his competition. It all comes to a boil in Ch...

  • The Colour of Fear

    Breathlessly action-packed and boasting a winning combination of thrills, humour and mysticism, the Destroyer is one of the bestselling series of all time....

  • Angry White Mailmen

    A hard probe into stolen nukes puts Mack Bolan on a firefight through Scandinavia, racing to piece together a scenario involving China, thirty tactical nukes and an unknown target. With Phoenix Force's Gary Manning as point man, they're losin...

  • Brain Storm

    • / General Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    The computer world is always evolving, but now it logs on trouble for CURE. Dr. Harold Smith's own meticulously organized neural files are covertly copied, analyzed and downloaded by an amazing new interface system. Soon all of CURE's deepest...

  • Dead Letter

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    Digger - 3

    Digger is an insurance investigator who drinks, chases women, asks smartass questions and gets help from his part-time hooker girlfriend. A humorous crime adventure series by the author of The Destroyer. In DEAD LETTER, Digger's boss's daughter is th...

  • Fool's Flight

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    Digger - 2

    Digger is an insurance investigator who drinks, chases women, asks smartass questions and gets help from his part-time hooker girlfriend. A humorous crime adventure series by the author of The Destroyer. In FOOL'S FLIGHT, Digger investigates a plane ...

  • Lucifer's Weekend

    • / Action Adventure
    • Buy Buy
    Digger - 4

    Digger is an insurance investigator who drinks, chases women, asks smartass questions and gets help from his part-time hooker girlfriend. A humorous crime adventure series by the author of The Destroyer. In LUCIFER'S WEEKEND, Digger can't convince a ...



Award-Winning Books by Warren Murphy

The Ceiling of Hell
1984 Shamus Award -- Paperback Original P.I. Novel
Pigs Get Fat
1986 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Warren Murphy has published 39 books.

Warren Murphy does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Angry White Mailmen, was published in November 2023.

The first book by Warren Murphy, Smoked Out, was published in February 1982.

Yes. Warren Murphy has 2 series.
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