Of the five authorial bylines in this installment of the onlineAddenda to the Revised Crime Fiction IV, by Allen J. Hubin, there may be only two actual authors involved. These entries come from Part 25. Besides the incidental alphabetical proximity between two of them, there’s no other connection.

ADCOCK, LARRY. It is possible that this author of one book in the Revised Crime Fiction IV is also Thomas L(arry) Adcock, q.v., author of several other crime fiction novels.
      CB Angel. Popular Library, pb, 1977. Add setting: cross-country US. Also add British edition: NEL, pb, 1981. Leading characters: “The Lone Ranger” = Steve Yancy and “Tonto” = Jay Banks. [A pair of truckers team up with a woman known to them only as “Foxy Lady” and a voice.]

LARRY ADCOCK CB Angel



ADCOCK, THOMAS L(ARRY). 1947- . Pseudonym: Buck Saunders; possible other byline: Larry Adcock, q.v.. Born in Detroit; a former journalist and newspaper editor before turning to writing full time. Under his own name, the author of seven police procedurals included in the Revised Crime Fiction IV, six of them with NYPD detective Neil Hockaday. Hockaday earlier appeared in a series of short stories for Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, the first of which, “Christmas Cop” (March 1986) received an MWA Edgar nomination. The second Hockaday novel, Dark Maze (Pocket, 1991), won an Edgar in 1992 for Best Original Paperback.

THOMAS ADCOCK Dark Maze



ADLON, ARTHUR. Pseudonym of (Harold) Keith (Oliver) Ayling, 1898-1976; other pseudonym: Kaye Ayling, qq.v. Under this pen name, among other adult fiction, the author of a marginally crime-related novel previously included in the Revised Crime Fiction IV. Add the one indicated with an asterisk (*).
      (*) -Bad Girl Abroad. Chariot, US, pb, 1960, Setting: France. [Criminous and passionate adventures of an American teenager in the French Riviera.]

ARTHUR ADLON Bad Girl Abroad

      -The Prince of Poisoners. Chariot, US, pb, 1960.

AYLING, KAYE. Pseudonym of (Harold) Keith (Oliver) Ayling, 1898-1976; other pseudonym: Arthur Adlon, qq.v. Under this pen name, the author of one romantic spy thriller included in the Revised Crime Fiction IV.
      Who Was Ellen Smith? Lancer, pb, 1967. “Her husband’s past was a mystery.and her own future depended on the answer. Where could she seek help?”

KAYE AYLING Who Was Ellen Smith?


AYLING, (HAROLD) KEITH (OLIVER). 1898-1976. Pseudonyms: Arthur Adlon & Kaye Ayling, qq.v. Born in Hampshire, England. Wartime service with the Royal Air Force; came to the US in 1940. Writer for Liberty Magazine and the aviation pulps in the 1940s; author of many non-fiction books about aviation and auto racing between 1941 and 1970. Also under his own name, the author of one espionage novel included in the Revised Crime Fiction IV. See below.
      The Last Enemy. Pyramid, pb, 1971. “International double-dealing in sex and revolution.”

KEITH AYLING The Last Enemy