Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze (2020)

From the Publisher:
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 morning rambles on semicoherently, though he's sharp enough to make Hockaday as a cop. He introduces himself as Picasso, makes snide comments about the policeman to an invisible companion -- and issues a vague homicidal threat just before his bus leaves.

Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen and now an NYPD detective, Hockaday has been exposed to plenty of strange characters. But Picasso's haunting words -- and the killings that follow -- soon have the officer searching the city for someone who considers murder his masterpiece...

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze. A Neil Hockaday Mystery. MysteriousPress.com / Open Road Media, ISBN: 9781504060028 (January, 2020), 5 MB (ca. 310 p.), $10.99.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze (2011)

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Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue -- until the killings began. Now it's up to Hock to stop a murderer who makes killing an art -- real masterworks in paint, flesh, and blood.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze. Gallery Books, ISBN: 9781451646818 (May, 2011), 320 p., $19.95.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze (2004)

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NEW YORK'S STREETS OF DREAMS AND DERELICTS, ILLUSION AND HOPE, ARE ONE ARTIST'S BACK-GROUND. THE FOREGROUND IS MURDER. Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue. He didn't think much about it, that is, until the killings began.

Then Hock knew it wasn't just a murder binge -- it was one man's final spree of self-expression. It was about making a mark in a city that's an incubator for kooks and a canvas for violence. It was about a high-rolling mother and a ne'er-do-well father, about Coney Island, a Detroit gambling boom, and about a beautiful woman named Ruby Flagg who means more to Hock than he's willing to admit. And now it's about how to stop a murderer-the kind that makes killing an art, in the dark maze of a troubled mind that does its masterworks in paint, flesh and blood.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze. Pocket Books, ISBN: 141650172X (May, 2004), 320 p., $1.25.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze (1991)

From the Publisher:
NEW YORK'S STREETS OF DREAMS AND DERELICTS, ILLUSION AND HOPE, ARE ONE ARTIST'S BACK-GROUND. THE FOREGROUND IS MURDER. Born and bred in Hell's Kitchen, Detective Neil Hockaday didn't think that much about an old geezer calling himself Picasso and babbling about slaughter on Tenth Avenue. He didn't think much about it, that is, until the killings began.

Then Hock knew it wasn't just a murder binge -- it was one man's final spree of self-expression. It was about making a mark in a city that's an incubator for kooks and a canvas for violence. It was about a high-rolling mother and a ne'er-do-well father, about Coney Island, a Detroit gambling boom, and about a beautiful woman named Ruby Flagg who means more to Hock than he's willing to admit. And now it's about how to stop a murderer-the kind that makes killing an art, in the dark maze of a troubled mind that does its masterworks in paint, flesh and blood.

Thomas Adcock: Dark Maze. From Coney Island to Hell's Kitchen, a creative killer is painting the town blood-red... Pocket Books, ISBN: 0671729098 (December, 1991), 320 p., $4.99.