Thomas Adcock

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Thomas Larry Adcock (born May 1, 1947 in Detroit ) is an American crime writer.

Life

Adcock grew up first in his native Detroit and later in New York . He began his writing career as a police reporter and journalist in Michigan and Minnesota . He worked for newspapers until 1978, then moved to New York and took a job in the Madison Avenue advertising business . He also wrote a dozen simple novels under a pseudonym and later also radio plays and screenplays for television series.

His first book publication under his own name was Precinct 19 (1984), a factual account of the police everyday life in a mining area 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 had New York police officer Neil Hockaday play the role of investigator for the first time. The story was nominated for the Edgar Allan Poe Award .

Other stories followed regularly, in which Hockaday also played the main role again and again. Finally, in 1989, the first novel with the police officer of Irish descent appeared in paperback; Hell's Kitchen is, according to Krimi-Couch, a "milestone in hard crime thriller". The second novel, Feuer und Schwefel , then became Adcock's most successful work: in 1992 it earned him the Edgar Allan Poe Award for the best paperback crime novel . By 1997, the series grew to six novels, some of which were translated into up to ten languages.

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

Works

Non-fiction
  • Precint 19 (1984)
Neil Hockaday novels
  • Hell's Kitchen ( Sea of ​​Green , 1989)
  • Fire and Brimstone ( Dark Maze , 1991)
  • Drowned all 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)
Others
  • Where Jesus lost his sandals
    • Translated by Jürgen Bürger: Where Jesus lost his sandals, in Haffman's 1996 crime series . Heyne, 1996, pp. 143 - 186 (original article)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Review of Hells Kitchen on krimi-couch.de
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento from May 18, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME Adcock, Thomas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adcock, Thomas Larry (full name); Saunders, Buck (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Detroit , Michigan , USA