Missing in Manhattan

by Thomas Chastain, Justin Scott, Lucy Freeman

Ten mystery writers, members of the Adams Round Table, offer baffling cases of unsolved murder in the Big Apple

Genres: Mystery

297 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1992

Reviews

[Pamela Mclaren · Rating 4 out of 5]

Entertaining and fun short stories that can be read any time of the day. I always find it fun to read short stories by diverse authors because its like exploring a new author without having to buy a whole book. But all of these authors were great and the stories were pretty interesting. I'm always amazed at how well short stories can be.. Except .... and relatively minor (this is more a comment about current book editors who don't seem to stay on task: one of the authors lost track of her clues and at the beginning of the story said a suspect had had an argument with the murdered man at 7:30 p.m. Then when the suspect was questioned, it became 9:30 p.m. Later it was mentioned that someone had cut themselves ... but where that came from who knows?

[Janet Balliet]

The Adams round table edition. Short stories by many authors

[Rogue Reader · Rating 2 out of 5]

Old fashioned mystery is often the best kind. Dorothy Salisbury Davis organizes the Adams Round Table to put together a collection of New York City short mysteries. Some well known names here! The shorts are fun to read, often surprising, and sometimes as in The Absent Present, gruesome. The stories aren't particularly NY so that was a bit of a disappointment, and causes me to wonder when the focus on place as character became more fashionable- this work was published in 1994.