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Neil Hockaday Mystery #1
Sea of Green
Book by Adcock, Thomas
- GenresMystery
295 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1989
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About the author
Thomas Adcock
22 books4 followersAka 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 Mystery Writers of America, the Czech Writers Union, and was co-founder of the North American chapter of the International Association of Crime Writers.
He and his wife, actress Kim Sykes, live in New York City and upstate North Chatham, N.Y., where they are activists in progressive political organizations
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 Mystery Writers of America, the Czech Writers Union, and was co-founder of the North American chapter of the International Association of Crime Writers.
He and his wife, actress Kim Sykes, live in New York City and upstate North Chatham, N.Y., where they are activists in progressive political organizations
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March 7, 2025
Actually rated 2.5 stars. The style--gritty and melancholy--wasn't to my taste, but the story was good. Neil Hockaday is a divorced NYC cop forced to go back to living in his crummy childhood neighborhood. I would have rated the book a full 3 stars, but the dialog sounded like hokey, old-timey gangster speech to the point of distraction (like you's guys, etc.). I would be willing to try the 2nd book in the series.
May 9, 2016
#1 in the Neil "Hock" Hockaday, NYPD detective series. The debut of a 6 entry series of eccentric content and variable interest. Over the course of the series, the hard-nosed Irish cop from Hell's Kitchen, NYC acquires a girlfriend (then wife) who is a successful advertising executive, a New Orleans native, and black.
Neil "Hock" Hockaday, NYPD detective - investigates real estate related murders in Hell's Kitchen and threats against Harlem preacher Father Love.
Neil "Hock" Hockaday, NYPD detective - investigates real estate related murders in Hell's Kitchen and threats against Harlem preacher Father Love.
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