Asey Mayo Mysteries (No.2,10,20,23) by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
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Overview: Phoebe Atwood Taylor, born in 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, was the first member of her family to have been born off Cape Cod in more than 300 years. Upon graduating from Manhattan’s Barnard College, she moved to Weston, Massachusetts, to pen her first work, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), which was published when she was 22. The book was written while Taylor was caring for her invalid aunt, Alice Tilton (the source of one of her two publishing pseudonyms, the other being Freeman Dana). Taylor was one of the first mystery writers to give a regional and rural rather than urban focus during the time known as the “golden age” of mystery writing (1918-39). Gone With the Wind’s author, Margaret Mitchell, was a great fan of the Asey Mayo series, and encouraged Taylor to pack the books with Cape Cod detail. In all, she authored 33 books. She died in 1976 at age 67.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller
Death Lights a Candle (2)
It promised to be a cozy weekend house party on the Cape, but none of the guests had foreseen such a snowfall, none was prepared to be completely cut off, without heat, light or telephone. And certainly none had expected to find the host, Albert Stires, dead in his bedroom.
Fortunately, Asey Mayo happens to be on the scene. At first, Stires seems to be the victim of arsenic, and suddenly there are too many suspects with far too easy access to the poison. But then Asey discovers a most ingenious murder weapon, virtually unknown in the twentieth century, which destroys its evidence as it works on its victim. Just as it nearly succeeds in working upon Asey himself!
Figure Away (10)
As the tourists arrive on the Cape for the summer a series of odd events – fires, shots in the night, thefts – threatens to scare them off. The homespun detective is called in to save the day – and finds a corpse in Hell Hollow. With the aid of Cousin Syl and his wife, Asey outwits both the State Police and the murderer.
Going Going Gone (20)
When an art auction ends in murder, unlikely sleuth Asey Mayo embarks on a search for the perpetrator in a crime that could by linked to the fierce competition between rival art dealers Miss Pitkin and Mr. Harmsworth, the discovery of an unexpected treasure, or the secrets of Quin Sharp, the auctioneer, in a mystery set on Cape Cod.
Punch With Care (23)
Asey thought the Douglasses’ behavior a bit suspicious when their imposing houseguest, writer and educator Carolyn Barton Boone, couldn’t be found. Then Asey, in the company of Doc Cummings, happened to find her corpse over at Pochet Point in an antique Pullman railroad car, a punched green ticket in her hand. It was only when this singular cadaver abruptly vanished that things really began to get complicated, not to say downright threatening.
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