Phillip DePoy Books In Order – Complete List

Phillip DePoy is an American author, a playwright-novelist known for several mystery series, including Flap Tucker, Fever Devilin, Foggy Moskowitz and Christopher Marlowe, the last one being a historical mystery series.

Here are the Phillip DePoy books in order for all his series and standalone novels.

Flap Tucker Books in Publication Order

1. Easy, 1997 (aka Easy Does It)
2. Too Easy, 1998
3. Easy as One Two Three, 1999
4. Dancing Made Easy, 1999
5. Dead Easy, 2000

Fever Devilin Books in Publication Order

1. The Devil’s Hearth, 2003
2. The Witch’s Grave, 2004
3. A Minister’s Ghost, 2005
4. A Widow’s Curse, 2007
5. The Drifter’s Wheel, 2008
6. A Corpse’s Nightmare, 2011
7. December’s Thorn, 2013

Foggy Moskowitz Books in Publication Order

1. Cold Florida, 2016
2. Three Shot Burst, 2017
3. Icepick, 2018
4. Sidewalk Saint, 2019
5. Sammy Two Shoes, 2021

Christopher Marlowe Books in Publication Order

1. A Prisoner in Malta, 2016
2. The English Agent, 2017

Short Story Anthologies in Order of Publication

• Murder at the Beach, 2014 (Bouchercon Anthology)
• Ellen Hart Presents Malice Domestic 15: Mystery Most Theatrical, 2020

Standalone Novels in Order of Publication

• The King James Conspiracy, 2009

Plays in Order of Publication

• Angels, 1995
• The Beggar’s Opera, 1996 (with William Fred Scott)

Non-Fiction Books in Publication Order

• The Tao and the Bard: A Conversation, 2013

Phillip DePoy Biography – About the Author

Phillip DePoy was born in 1950 in Rockford, Illinois. At the age of five, his family moved to Atlanta.

He always wanted to write. In the 10th grade, he submitted his first short story to his teacher. After reading it, his teacher encouraged Phillip to become a writer. He started writing poems at the age of 14 and in 1973 he published his first poem at the age of 23.

At the age of 15, in 1965 he started his professional career with the Actors and Writers Workshop, and ten years later, he became a poet. After getting a master’s degree in performance art, he became a writer in residence for the Georgia Council for the Arts. In addition, he was a composer-in-residence for the Academy Theatre, where he wrote music for several productions during the 1980s. In the 1990s he was the artistic director of Theatrical Outfit, a professional equity theatre.

Before writing fiction novels, Phillip also wrote plays for the stage. He also directed several plays (including Beowulf) and was the director of two university theater programs. Over the years he has worked as director of several university theater programs. In 2002 he received the Edgar Award Best Mystery Play for Easy. Some of his books were nominated for various awards as well (Shamus finalist). He has written and published short stories, and poetry, as well as critism articles in magazines such as Story, The Southern Poetry Review, Xanadu, Yankee, and others. In addition, he was a composer-in-residence for the Academy Theatre, where he wrote music for several productions during the 1980s.

Currently, Phillip DePoy is director of theater at Clayton State University. He is also a well known in the Georgia theater world as an actor, director, and playwright. For the rest of the world, however, he is most known as a mystery writer. In addition to his series, he also wrote a standalone mystery called The King James Conspiracy. He has written complex characters while giving us places full of local color.

Flap Tucker is a detective with a special ability: he is using his intuition to find lost things … or people. And he relies on meditation rather than on a gun to do so.

Fever Devilin, the main character, is a daredevil and former folklorist who has returned home to the Georgian Appalachians, leaving behind the world of academia. But when he returns, home is not quite the way he left it behind. The series is set in Set in Blue Mountain, Appalachian mountains of Georgia, and it includes seven novels with a blend of legend and mystery. Some of Fever’s adventures lead to quite severe near-death experiences, and as each book progresses, we see more of his past. We also get a look into his strange and mysterious family connections.

Foggy Moskowitz is a Jewish former car thief and current amateur PI working in Florida in the Child Protective Services in the early 1970s.

Christopher Marlowe, the famous English playwright, poet, and alleged spy in the late 1500s features in his latest series, which currently includes two books in which Marlowe portrayed as witty, womanizer, and investigator uncovering conspiracies.

Besides writing novels and plays, Phillip DePoy is also involved with musicals. In the 2021-2022 season Phillip DePoy contributed to the musical “Darlin’ Cory” with his book. The musical, inspired by local lore and set in 1930s Appalachia, was directed by Susan V. Booth with music by Kristian Bush.