Thomas Adcock

A Neil Hockaday Mystery

1 - Sea of Green (Oct-1989)
2 - Dark Maze (Dec-1991)
3 - Drown All the Dogs (Feb-1994)
4 - Devil's Heaven (Feb-1995)
5 - Thrown-Away Child (Apr-1996)
6 - Grief Street (Sep-1997)

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  New York, New York
  

  in Murder on the Aisle

  • Aug-1987
  • / Mystery
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  Sea of Green
  

  • Oct-1989
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 1
  

  The first in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series featuring an NYPD detective working the mean streets of Manhattan’s West Side (The Washington Post).   Detective Neil Hockaday, a son of Hell’s Kitchen who grew up to join the N...

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  Dark Maze
  

  • Dec-1991
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 2
  

  Edgar Award Winner: An NYPD detective navigates a lethal labyrinth in this entry in Adcock’s series of “gritty procedurals” (The New York Times Book Review).   The old, shabbily dressed man who walks up to Neil Hockaday in the park one mor...

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  Drown All the Dogs
  

  • Feb-1994
  • / Law Enforcement
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 3
  

  "The case is yours, I fear," Police Captain Davy Mogaill said. "And what grander case may a detective crack than the mystery of his own makings?" Detective Neil Hockaday, hero of New York's elite S.C.O.M. (Street Crimes Unit-Manhattan) patrol, has...

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  Devil's Heaven
  

  • Feb-1995
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 4
  

  Fresh from his ancestral Irish home with a new bride, old ghosts, and a terrible thirst, Hockaday is drawn into a vicious homicide case. A spate of homosexual deaths around New York City, written off by the police as suicides, are soon revealed to be...

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  Thrown-Away Child
  

  • Apr-1996
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 5
  

  This “irresistible” police procedural “bares the New Orleans underbelly few tourists get to see” (Publishers Weekly, starred review).   NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has traveled to the Big Easy, hometown of his wife, African-American act...

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  Grief Street
  

  • Sep-1997
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Neil Hockaday Mystery - 6
  

  A rabbi is killed and a Catholic procession is sprayed with gunfire in this crime thriller in the “beautifully written” Edgar-winning series (The Washington Post).   NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has acted on his conscience by reporting a fel...

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Award-Winning Books by Thomas Adcock

Dark Maze
1992 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Paperback Original