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  • Death Lights a Candle

    ''Death Lights a Candle'' is a 1932 Golden Age classic whodunit marking the second book in the highly popular Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery series. The story takes place in a Wellfleet mansion on Cape Cod during a fierce March blizzard. A house party of guests and servants is completely snowed in and cut off from civilization. The host, Bert Stires, arrives 24 hours overdue from Boston, wet and ... Read more

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  • Sandbar Sinister

    When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of trouble along with it in this classic case for Asey Mayo, the Cape's answer to Sherlock Holmes.The picturesque Cape Cod village of East Pochet is not its usual self when Elizabeth Colton arrives. The previous evening, a bootlegger dumped two hundred cases of liquor offshore, and the whole town endeavored to ... Read more

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  • Diplomatic Corpse

    First published in the US in 1951 by Little, Brown: Boston. When a cast member of a New England historical pageant is murdered, Asey Mayo is called in to investigate. ... Read more

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  • The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery

    When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer. First in the series. ... Read more

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  • The Cape Cod Mystery

    First published in the US in 1931 by Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis, ''The Cape Cod Mystery'' is the first whodunnit to feature the series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". 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 ... Read more

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  • Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery

    First published in the US in 1946 by Farrar, Straus and Company, New York. 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 after the killer strikes a second time. All in all, it’s a typical Asey ... Read more

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  • The Cape Cod Mystery

    "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 TimesMURDER ON THE CAPEThe best-selling novelist is dead in the summer house.The millionaire is in the pillory in the town square.The village idiot is guarding him with a twenty-foot bullwhip.The bridge champion ... Read more

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  • The Iron Clew

    The Iron Clew - A Leonidas Witherall Mystery"Wilder and more diverting experiences than those which befall Leonidas Witherall are seldom found anywhere except in books by Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor)."—The New York TimesFrom the jacket:"Leonidas Witherall, who is the splitting image of Bill Shakespeare, runs pell-mell into another amazing mystery, written in superlative humor-cum-homicide ... Read more

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  • Diplomatic Corpse

    Diplomatic Corpse - An Asey Mayo mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, complete and unabridged"Asey Mayo possesses more common sense and personal charm than any other detective in fiction." —Times Literary Supplement"A thrilling undercurrent of murderous possibilities!"—Argonaut"A spring tonic for the most jaded literary appetite."—Milwaukee JournalIn front of a tall tombstone lay a figure...a figure ... Read more

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  • Beginning with a Bash

    The sign said COME IN AND BROWSE—IT’S WARM INSIDE. Martin Jones made the mistake of his life when he joined the others inside the bookstore. One of them, Professor John North, would soon be dead. And Martin is going to be the prime suspect.Luckily for Martin the bookstore is owned by his friend Dot Peters, who knows he's innocent. Even with the able assistance of Leonidas Xenophon "Bill" Witherall ... Read more

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  • Punch with Care

    Punch with Care, an Asey Mayo mysteryCorpses are here, and Mayo's got 'em.Asey Mayo, Cape Cod's gift to the amateur detective world, tackles another baffling mystery, which creeps up on him before he knows it, smack between the one o'clock Bull Moose siren and the one o'clock Quick Quiz Question on WBBB.While murder is no novelty to Mayo, this case involves him with such bizarre items as the ... Read more

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  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

    An Asey Mayo Mystery

    Series series American Mystery Classics
    Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.When the Cape Cod Players roll into towns along the lower Cape, the locals expect a great show, replete with games, magic, and merriment. Of course, they usually have an audience, too. When Boston widow Victoria Ballard, visiting the Cape to recover from a near-fatal bout with pneumonia, comes upon the ... Read more

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