Thomas Adcock
Thomas Adcock is a Detroit-born journalist and novelist. He is a winner of an Edgar Allan Poe Award. As U.S. correspondent for CulturMag, a Berlin-based international magazine of art and commentary, he writes on American behavior and politics. 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, New York University, and the New School for Social Research. 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, the actress and writer Kim Sykes, live in New York City and upstate North Chatham, N.Y. They are activists in progressive causes and political organizations.Nonfiction
"The Cannibal of Pang Yang"
- Sea of Green
- Dark Maze
- Drown All the Dogs
- Devil's Heaven
- Thrown-Away Child
- Grief Street
Anthologies
- Murder on the Aisle
- Mystery for Christmas
- Thou Shalt Not Kill
- Merry Murder
- Bad Behavior
- Death in Dixie
- Murder Most Merry
- New Orleans Noir
- Bronx Noir
- Brooklyn Noir/3
Short stories
EQMM = Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine
AHMM = Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
- The Mister's Funeral
- New York, New York
- Christmas Cop
- Thrown-Away Child
- Zero Man
- Cracker Jack
- No Jury Will Ever Hang You
- Smart Sammy Slapman
- The Sixty-Six Cent Divorce
- The Trespass
- The Dark Maze
- The Life of a Big Whale
- The School of Ten Bells
- Shoot Me, I'm Already Dead
- Who Gives This Bride?
- Straight Down the Middle
- A Cool, Clean Shot
- My Dear Dead Dope
- Lawyers' Tongues
- You Want I Should Whack Monkey Boy?
- The Morgue Boys