Thomas Adcock

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Thomas Adcock


Born
in Detroit, The United States
January 01, 1947

Genre
Mystery & Thrillers


Aka Buck Sanders (house pseudonym)

Thomas Adcock is a Detroit-born journalist and mystery novelist who won the Edgar Award for Best Paperback Original in 1992. His novels and short stories been translated into Japanese, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Bulgarian and Czech. He began his newspaper career at the Detroit Free Press and has written for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, Chicago Today, the Toronto Telegram, the New York Law Journal and The New York Times.

Adcock has also worked at a Manhattan advertising agency and taught journalism and creative writing—at Temple University (Philadelphia), New York University, and the New School for Social Research (New York). He has been active in P.E.N. International, the ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 1,102 ratings · 126 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors
Bad Behavior
3.38 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1995 — 14 editions
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Dark Maze (Neil Hockaday My...
3.30 avg rating — 74 ratings — published 1991 — 11 editions
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Sea of Green
3.42 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1989 — 4 editions
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Devil's Heaven: A Neil Hock...
3.61 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions
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Precinct 19
3.27 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1986 — 8 editions
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Thrown-Away Child
3.27 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions
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Grief Street
3.41 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions
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Hell's Kitchen
3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 3 editions
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The Cannibal of Pang Yang
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions
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Murder on the Aisle
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“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”
― Thomas Adcock
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