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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2010
  • Latest Book:
    April 2022
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Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida’s Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, the local ...



  • The marina of a small town on the Gulf Coast of Florida’s Panhandle is awash in more than salt water. Somebody local is bringing in drugs from Mexico. How and by whom is it being done? Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, the lo...



  • A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million Florida lottery, is found dead in his bed with a pistol in his hand. Was it suicide, or murder? Detective Lieutenant Joe Phillips romances bank trust officer Maryanne Larkin while they investigate. They...



  • A poor young black man, winner of a $23 million lottery, is found dead in his bed with a pistol in his hand—clearly it’s not an accident and apparently it’s a suicide. But with all that money at stake, could he have been murdered? D...



  • A wealthy widow, heiress to a fortune from Florida oranges, is poisoned -- KGB style. The shocking crime sets tongues wagging in a small town on the Gulf Coast shores of the Florida Panhandle. Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, a ba...



  • A wealthy widow, heiress to a fortune from Florida oranges, is poisoned—KGB style. The shocking crime sets tongues wagging in a small town on the Gulf Coast shores of the Florida Panhandle. Police detective Joe Phillips and his wife Maryanne, a...



  • "Love is a many-splendored thing." It certainly finds expression in myriad ways, and often laughably--as you will see from these thirty-eight amusing stories. As Socrates aptly said, "To see ourselves as others see us is to break out laughing." To wh...



  • Take a trip to the islands of the Pacific with retired professor J. Humbert Flintlock, his pilot son, his Jewish neighbor lady, and her daughter. It’s an entirely innocent project to update the professor’s famous "Guide to the Birds of Oceania." ...



  • Thirty years in the future, journalist Hank Thomas uncovers a conspiracy--a secret war plan to seize the world’s last big oil field. With the help of a patriotic Russian girl, the newsman visits the war zone in western China’s famous Turpan Depre...






  • The love of money is The Root of All Evil. Joe Phillips and Maryanne Larkin--a police detective and bank trust officer--team up to solve three financial crimes in the Florida Panhandle. Was it suicide--or murder? Who was importing drugs? Who poisoned...



  • Jihadist terrorism comes to Florida’s Emerald Coast: First, a suicide bomber destroys an offshore oil rig platform in the Gulf of Mexico. Then the government suspects an extremist plot to destroy airplanes at nearby Eglin Air Force base. Local Sher...



  • Want to know all about banking? I didn't think so. But that's where there money is! And all those employees to steal it! However, you'd have to be more clever than the auditor, even if he's new to the job. And that's the situation Charley Hayworth fi...



  • Complete with colorful pictures and a few genuine facts, this whimsical spoof shares the professor's private names for some of Nature's most familiar creatures and challenges you, or your child, to give their proper names. Have a few laughs as you le...



  • HEAT is a novel about a looming looming catastrophe. Have you ignored “climate change”? So has Associate Professor William Fleming, a honeybee specialist—until global warming is suggested to him as a cause of crashing bee population...



  • A meteorite expert who teaches college chemistry is sent a meteorite from Nepal. It is extraordinarily heavy, and he determines that it is composed of a completely new element. So seemingly outlandish is his discovery that he chooses not to announce ...





  • Want to know all about banking? I didn’t think so. But that’s where there money is! And all those employees to steal it! However, you’d have to be more clever than the auditor, even if he’s new to the job. And that’s the...



  • Police detective Joe Phillips and bank trust officer Maryanne Larkin team up to solve four financial crimes in their hometown on the Florida Panhandle. TOO RICH TO LIVE: Was it suicide—or murder? PARTNERS IN CRIME: Who was smuggling Drugs? WHER...







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    Take a trip to the islands of the Pacific with retired professor J. Humbert Flintlock, his pilot son, his Jewish neighbor lady, and her daughter. It’s an entirely innocent project to update the professor’s famous Guide to the Birds of Oce...



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    Have you ignored climate change? So has Associate Professor William Fleming, a honeybee specialist—until global warming is suggested to him as a cause of crashing bee populations. He decides to research that, but first he needs a deeper underst...



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    Four mystery novels in one collection! Join detective Joe Phillips and banker Maryanne Larkin as they team up to solve four financially motivated murders in their hometown on the Florida Panhandle. Was it suicide—or murder? Who was smuggling dr...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

James F. Babcock has published 24 books.

James F. Babcock does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Joe and Maryanne Novels, was published in April 2022.

The first book by James F. Babcock, Too Rich to Live, was published in July 2010.

No. James F. Babcock does not write books in series.