The “Codfish Sherlock Holmes” solves a whodunnit in 1930s Cape CodMeet Asey Mayo, Cape Cod’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. Settled down from his former life as a seafaring adventurer, Asey is a Jack-of-all-trades who uses his worldly knowledge, fo...
There's been no shortage of trouble on Cape Cod that March. A house party of men and women has been snowed inand cut off from the world outside. The host is murdered. Poisoning, the doctor says; probably arsenic. But almost everyone is found to ha...
John "Red" Gilpin, the magician, was irresistible to the women. lie was good at pullling rabbits out of hats, but he may have had a few other tricks up his sleeve. For when he met up with the other travelling players on the Cape, someone promptly put...
There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.
For all its ingenious plot, The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern is more than a mystery; it is a genuine New England novel, full of Yankee horse sen...1993 Foul Play Press MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, 2nd printing. Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery). The forbidding chain link fence topped with barbed wire strands looked out of place on the Cape. But it did its job, sepa...
A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.
The residents of West Weesit had good reason to start calling Crooked Cliff "Suicide Cliff." Four women's bodies had been found at its foot, Kay Truman's only last month. Her father, Dave Truman...Flocks of tourists were arriving in Billingsgate for Old Home Week, unaware that odd things had been happening: fires in Town hall, stolen keys, and shots in the dark. Before it all gets further out of hand, Asey Mayo is called in to save the day, ha...
A LOVELY MODEL MURDERED and Asey Mayo tries to comfort her sister, WHO HATED THE VICTIM. Money might have been a motive since there was A CLEAR CASE OF BLACKMAIL, but why would anyone paint over a mural except TO COVER UP A CLUE OR TWO? It...
Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody'...
A LOVABLE MILLIONAIRE who baked poisoned tarts. A TOOTHSOME SWEET YOUNG THING with and expensive sweet tooth for men. TWO DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS found drowned on dry land. AN INTIRE TOWN that hated the man who saved it. A DETERMINED D...
On peaceful Cape Cod, the eccentric collector lies dead on his study floor, his body ripped by a deadly claw. Outside a wealthy young widow scours the dark countryside for her missing wild cats, and down the road the neighbors play a strange game, a ...
A classic Phoebe Atwood Taylor mystery.
Something must have scared the wits out of Jane Lennox to make her run right in front of Asey Mayo in his brand new Porter Sixteen. Could that something have been the sight of a corpse? And could it have...This time, Asey has to deal with a corpse that won't stay put. It all begins when Asey and Cousin Jenny encounter a woman in a terrible hurry in a hailstorm on the way to Quisset. Later that evening she turns up dead in a phone booth at the Whale Inn...
Another classic Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery.
While on leave from the Porter factory, Asey Mayo discovers a murder in the buttery of his Cape Cod home. Mayo's investigation amid the deprivations of the war years―rationing, suspicion, preparedn...Nora Latimer doesn't know the girl with the Wander Bird trailer, or what she's doing on her Weesit property. She doesn't know the dead man in the trailer, either. So naturally she turns to Asey Mayo in "The Wander Bird Plot." Asey surely didn't tr...
There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.
An auction that begins as a treasure hunt ends in murder, and an incredible discovery sends our unlikely detective off on a hunt for a killer. Wer...Who bashed the girl on the beach? Half the town--and the state cops--figured it was Asey Mayo, paying off an old grudge. With only hours to solve the crime, Asey set off at a run--and ran smack into such oddities as a square plum pudding--an addle...
Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody'...
The discovery by Asey Mayo and Doc Cummings of the bludgeoned body of Carolyn Barton Boone in an antique Pullman car of the Pochet and Back Shore Railroad marks the beginning of a wacky murder chase highlighted by the disappearance of the body until ...
"Buff" Orpington arrived in picturesque Quanomet to find the little Cape Cod town in ferment. A stupendous pageant of American history was being staged, and the inhabitants of Quanomet had time and thought for nothing else. But all was not as...