Murder on Route 66

by Carolyn Wheat (editor)

The legendary Route 66 becomes the scene for an original collection of mystery tales by Carolyn Hart, J. A. Jance, Barbara D'Amato, Les Roberts, John Lutz, Judith Van Gieson, Earlene Fowler, Michael Allen Dymmoch, Eleanor Taylor Bland, and other distinguished authors. Original.

Genres: Mystery

294 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 1998

About the author

Carolyn Wheat is an attorney, an editor, and an award-winning author. Her short stories won the Anthony, the Agatha, the Shamus, and the Macavity awards, and two of her six Cass Jameson legal mysteries have been nominated for Edgar awards.

Reviews

[Jerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

A series of 16 shorts, all related in some way to route 66. A few really good, but some were apparently included more for the route 66 connection, than the quality of story. Worth the read only if you're a fan of route 66 nostalgia.

[James · Rating 2 out of 5]

I SPED through this baby hoping to find a good story. Did not succeed. I enjoy references to places I’ve been.

[Lee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Collection of short stories set on Route 66. May be that I like my mysteries more involved than a short story allows, but did not care for this book.

[Kristi · Rating 2 out of 5]

There were a couple of gems in here, but most of the stories didn't live up to the premise of adventure and mystery along Route 66. Other than setting the story in a motel, or mentioning a town along Route 66, there were very few connections to the Mother Road. If you're looking for mystery shorts, this will probably satisfy, but if you were lured in by the Route 66 shield on the cover, look elsewhere.

[Beth · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't normally like short stories but this collection was okay. I can listen to anything on audio. My friend picked it out and we listened to it together during a long drive. One good thing about short stories is you can just fast forward through a story if you don't like it. I found this particularly helpful during one story with a narrator that sounded a little too much like Punky Brewster...

[Patty · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've read the stories in this book 5 times so far and never tire of them, because they are true to history and regional culture. History from the 1930s to the Viet Nam war may bore some readers, but not to me, especially when cloaked in mysteries and deaths that could have been real.

I'm going to read it again!

[Julie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately I liked very few of these short stories. I thought that many of them introduced too many characters and became too involved for their length, and the endings were disappointing.

[Robert Scott]

08/28/2013 stories pretty interesting w/ many references to the mother road. Have read up to page 116 at least.