The Cape Cod Mystery

1931 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Cape Cod Mystery
First edition
AuthorPhoebe Atwood Taylor
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAsey Mayo
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherBobbs-Merrill
Publication date
1931
Publication placeUSA
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985)
Followed byDeath 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

  1. ^ The Cape Cod Mystery.
  2. ^ "Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Cape Cod Mystery". The Mysterious Bookshop. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  3. ^ "The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery - Ebook - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - ISBN 9781479418589 - Storytel". www.storytel.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
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Mystery novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo volumes
  • 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)
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