Thomas Adcock

Thomas Larry Adcock ( born 1947 in Detroit ) is an American crime writer.

Life

Growing up Adcock is first in his birth city of Detroit and later in New York. As a police reporter and journalist in Michigan and Minnesota, he began his career in the writer's guild. Until 1978 he worked for newspapers, then he went to New York and took a job in the advertising business on Madison Avenue at. In addition, he wrote a dozen novels under a pseudonym easier and later plays and screenplays for television series.

His first book published under his own name was Precinct 19 (1984 ), a factual account of the daily life in a police station in Manhattan. The following year, he began writing crime stories for Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine. In his second story Christmas Cop in March 1986, he was the first time the New York Police officers Neil Hockaday play the role of the investigator. The story was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award.

There followed more regularly stories in which Hockaday also repeatedly played the lead role. Finally, in 1989 published the first novel of the police officers of Irish descent in paperback; Hell's Kitchen is valid according to crime couch as a "milestone of hard thrillers ". The second novel fire and brimstone Adcocks was hugely successful: it won him the 1992 Edgar for best paperback thriller one. Until 1997, the series grew to six novels, some of which have been translated into up to ten languages.

Then Adcock was working as a journalist again and also taught as a teacher of creative writing. In addition, he is involved in various writers' organizations such as PEN and MWA and was a founding member of the North American Branch of the International Association of Crime Writers ( IACW / NA). He lives with his wife, actress Kim Sykes, alternately in a farmhouse in upstate New York and an apartment in Manhattan.

Works

Non-fiction book

  • Precint 19 (1984 )

Neil Hockaday novels

  • Hell's Kitchen (Sea of ​​Green, 1989)
  • Fire and brimstone ( Dark Maze, 1991)
  • Drown all the dogs ( Drown All the Dogs, 1994)
  • The sky of the Devil ( Devil 's Heaven, 1995)
  • Thrown -Away Child (1996, not published in German )
  • Grief Street (1997, not published in German )
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