Rick Boyer

A Doc Adams Mystery

1 - Billingsgate Shoal (1982)
2 - The Penny Ferry (May-1984)
3 - The Daisy Ducks (Sep-1986)
4 - Moscow Metal (Jun-1987)
5 - The Whale's Footprints (Sep-1988)
6 - Gone to Earth (Sep-1990)
7 - Yellow Bird (Oct-1991)
8 - Pirate Trade (Feb-1995)
9 - The Man Who Whispered (Nov-1998)

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  Billingsgate Shoal
  

  • 1982
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 1
  

  After a fishing trawler runs aground on the Massachusetts shore, the young scuba diver sent to investigate the wreck is found floating lifeless in the water. Doc Adams, the unhappy friend of the unlucky aquarian, is soon launched through the stormy s...

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  The Penny Ferry
  

  • May-1984
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 2
  

  The first case is history. That's the famous trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, Boston's pair of immigrant anarchists executed for a murder many still say they never committed.
  
  The second case makes history -- at least for Doc Adams. John Robinson, ...

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  The Daisy Ducks
  

  • Sep-1986
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 3
  

  Leader of the Daisy Ducks, a team of commandos in Vietnam, Roantis had stashed a fortune in Kowloon at the war's end. He wants Adams to help him retrieve the loot, but before they can plan the trip, the veteran is almost a dead Duck from a sniper sho...

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  Moscow Metal
  

  • Jun-1987
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 4
  

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  The Whale's Footprints
  

  • Sep-1988
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 5
  

  When Doc and Mary's son Jack brings his friend Andrew Cunningham to Woods Hole and the guest is found dead the next morning, Jack is blamed, and Doc Adams becomes Cape Cod's temporary medical examiner to learn the truth...

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  Gone to Earth
  

  • Sep-1990
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 6
  

  It all begins with motorcycles: four vintage Harley-Davidsons, carefully hidden away in the barn of Doe's newly purchased farm. A hard-core cycle enthusiast, Doc finds it hard to believe that the owners would have abandoned such carefully customized ...

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  Yellow Bird
  

  • Oct-1991
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 7
  

  A Doc Adams Mystery.
  Doc's old medical school chum and one-time drinking buddy, Jonathan Randolph, calls up one cold January night to invite Doc to pay him a visit on Cape Cod. Not long after the awkward reunion, Doc's presence is once again reque...

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  Pirate Trade
  

  • Feb-1995
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 8
  

  When Doc Adams buys a purse adorned with genuine carved ivory for his wife Mary, he unknowingly purchases a ticket into the underworld of modern-day piracy. In this case, the treasure is the precious ivory of endangered elephants and walruses, and th...

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  The Man Who Whispered
  

  • Nov-1998
  • / Amateur Sleuth
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  A Doc Adams Mystery - 9
  

  Convicted drug smuggler Christos Ramos once made headlines for refusing to divulge the whereabouts of his buried cache. Now sixty and nearing death, he wants to come clean. But his last whispered words to Doc Adams leave much to the imagination: "The...

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  A Sherlockian Quartet
  

  • Jun-1999
  • / Suspense
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Award-Winning Books by Rick Boyer

Billingsgate Shoal
1983 Edgar Allan Poe Award -- Novel