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Cherchez La Beneficiary: Trace by Warren Murphy

Richard Curtis — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 02:30:59 +0000

From Warren Murphy, the prolific author of the Destroyer series, comes another award-winning series called Trace.

The first novel introduces the dissipated insurance investigator whose assignments always seem to involve people who die not long after an insurance policy has been taken out on them. When Devlin Tracy – “Trace” – is not recovering from drink, gambling or womanizing, there is no one better at his job. The problem is, he’s always recovering from one, another or all three.

E-Reads is reprinting all seven thrillers in the Trace series. In the title novel. Trace’s part-time hooker girlfriend is off on an out-of-town trick, but alimony bills are piling up and his assignment is to find out if an idealistic doctor is dedicated to killing his patients instead of curing them.

The other novels in the series are:

And 47 Miles of Rope
Once a Mutt
Pigs Get Fat
Too Old a Cat
Getting Up With Fleas
When Elephants Forget

Trace was nominated by Mystery Writers of America for best book, and Pigs Get Fat won an Edgar award for best paperback original of 1985. The series was nominated for a Shamus award from the Private Eye Writers.

If you want to take a day off from Destroyer, pick up a Trace or two, or six or seven.

Fleet of New Destroyers Launched

Richard Curtis — Sat, 23 Apr 2011 02:00:04 +0000

Remo and Chiun face dire and seemingly insuperable challenges in a host of Warren Murphy Destroyer thrillers just put into play by E-Reads. In #51, Shock Value, a haberdashery clerk suddenly leaves his home in Ohio, flies to Italy, and kills a Red terrorist. Everyone figures the guy’s just coming apart at the seams – until it happens again . . . and again . . .

A pattern’s emerging, and the international powers are getting hot under the collar. Remo and Chiun are investigating before the U.S. is caught with its pants down. But then Harold W. Smith vanishes, along with the best brains in the world, and all at once CURE’s less than a memory . . .

Remo and Chiun follow the thread of evidence to a tropical island and a man with a message – a man with trouble up his sleeve. And, they find it’s just a matter of time before he takes the entire world to the cleaner’s . . .

Also newly added are Fool’s Gold, Time Trial, and Last Drop, and more are to come.

For a complete list of Warren Murphy titles carried by E-Reads, click here.

Cherchez La Beneficiary: Introducing Warren Murphy’s Insurance Investigator, “Trace”

Richard Curtis — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 05:00:00 +0000

The prolific and perpetually inventive Warren Murphy has produced over one hundred novels in the Destroyer series. E-Reads has fifty of them for sale, and more are on the way. But – Murphy produced another series, Trace, built around the exploits of a dissipated insurance investigator. His assignments always seem to involve people who die not long after an insurance policy has been taken out on them. When Devlin Tracy – “Trace” – is not recovering from drink, gambling, or womanizing, there is no one better at his job. The problem is, he’s always doing one, the other or all three.

The other novels in the series are:

And 47 Miles of Rope
Once a Mutt
Pigs Get Fat
Too Old a Cat
Getting Up With Fleas
When Elephants Forget

Pigs Get Fat won a Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for best paperback original of 1985.

If you want to take a day off from Destroyer, pick up a Trace or two, or seven. They’re all in e-book, and very soon will be in paperback.

Killing Off Your Hero in the First Book of a Series is Not Such a Hot Idea, Unless You’re Warren Murphy

Richard Curtis — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:00:00 +0000

When ex-New Jersey cop Remo Williams is electrocuted for the murder of a dope-dealing goon, CURE, a super-secret government agency that doesn’t really exist, schemes to resurrect Remo as the ultimate killing machine that will carry out most of its dirty plans. Under the direction of expert assassin Master Chiun, Remo is transformed into the Destroyer and launches a series of secret plots to dissolve the underworld.

That’s how the incredibly successful Destroyer series by writing partners Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir is launched, and as there are over one hundred adventures in print, Murphy (who took the series over solo after Sapir died in 1987) has obviously found a way to keep his protagonist in action despite executing him in Volume #1, Created: The Destroyer. So, beginning writers, don’t try this fictional technique at home.

E-Reads has reissued fifty titles in the series in both print and downloadable formats and there are more books on the way. Check out the selection and fill in the gaps in your collection.

And just to reassure you that any given Destroyer is as compelling as any other, check out Volume #50 and you’ll see that Remo and Master Chiun are still going strong. In typical Murphy fashion, Killing Time is about a fad diet with the potential to destroy Western civilization.

E-READS LAUNCHES FLEET OF DESTROYERS

Richard Curtis — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:34:00 +0000

E-Reads has just posted books 25-50 in Warren Murphy’s bestselling Destroyer series. You can either download them as e-books or buy print editions from amazon.

In time E-Reads will issue more Destroyers as well as action adventure thrillers featuring other Warren Murphy heroes.

- RC