The Cape Cod Mystery
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Author | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
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Language | English |
Series | Asey Mayo |
Genre | Mystery, Detective novel |
Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill |
Publication date | 1931 |
Publication place | USA |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985) |
Followed by | Death Lights a Candle (1932) |
The Cape Cod Mystery, first published in 1931, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, the first to feature her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
"Phoebe Atwood Taylor can get more fun into a detective story than any writer at present producing, and with all the fun there is a mystery that is baffling for its own sake." -The New York Times[1]
Plot Summary
Dale Sanborn has made a lot of enemies in his career as a muckraking author, philanderer and occasional blackmailer. When he vacations at a cabin in Cape Cod, any of his many visitors—an old girl friend, his fiancée, an outraged husband, a long-lost brother and a few more—the night he died could have killed him, and all of them wanted to. When a respectable Boston matron is involved in the crime, local character Asey Mayo takes a hand and brings the case to a successful, if unexpected, conclusion.[2]
TL;DR:
"When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer." -storytel.com[3]
Reference
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- The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)
- Death Lights a Candle (1932)
- The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
- The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
- Sandbar Sinister (1934)
- The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
- Deathblow Hill (1935)
- The Crimson Patch (1936)
- Out of Order (1936)
- Figure Away (1937)
- Octagon House (1937)
- The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
- Banbury Bog (1938)
- Spring Harrowing (1939)
- The Criminal C.O.D. (1940)
- The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
- The Perennial Boarder (1941)
- The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
- Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
- Going, Going, Gone (1943)
- Proof of the Pudding (1943)
- The Asey Mayo Trio (1946)
- Punch With Care (1946)
- Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
- Beginning with a Bash (1937)
- The Cut Direct (1938)
- Cold Steal (1939)
- The Left Leg (1940)
- The Hollow Chest (1941)
- File For Record (1943)
- Dead Ernest (1944)
- The Iron Clew (1947)
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