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Carolyn Wheat

(b.1946)

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.

Awards: Shamus (1998), Macavity (1997), Anthony (1997), Agatha (1996) see all

Genres: Mystery

Series

Cass Jameson
   1. Dead Man's Thoughts (1983)
   2. Where Nobody Dies (1986)
   3. Fresh Kills (1995)
   4. Mean Streak (1996)
   5. Troubled Waters (1997)
   6. Sworn to Defend (1998)

Novels

The Sunken Sailor (2004) (with others)

Anthologies edited

   Murder on Route 66 (1999)
   Tales Out of School (2000)
   Women Before the Bench (2001)

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Carolyn Wheat

The Shamus Winners Volume II (2010)
1996-2009
edited by
Robert J Randisi

Sherlock Holmes in America (2009)
edited by
Martin H Greenberg, Jon L Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower

The Ghosts of Baker Street (2006)
New Tales of Sherlock Holmes
edited by
Martin H Greenberg, Jon L Lellenberg and Daniel Stashower

More books

Awards

	1998 Shamus Award for Best PI Short Story : Love Me For My Yellow Hair Alone
	1997 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story : Cruel & Unusual
	1997 Anthony Award for Best Short Story : Accidents Will Happen
	1996 Agatha Award for Best Short Story : Accidents Will Happen

Award nominations

	2003 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : The Adventure of the Rara Avis
	2000 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : Show Me the Bones
	1997 Edgar Award for Best Novel (nominee) : Mean Streak
	1992 Macavity Award for Best Mystery Short Story (nominee) : Life, for Short
	1984 Edgar Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : Dead Man's Thoughts

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