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Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : Penzler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2024-04-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1613164947 |
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 troupe near her rural convalescent home, she ascertains that someone has played a nasty trick on the players, sending them to a remote destination in the wild backcountry in search of a paying gig. Sympathetic to the plight of the ragtag group, Vic invites them to stay the night with her, but when day breaks to find the lead magician with a bullet in his head, she realizes the cruel trick that brought the travelers to her home may have been part of a deadly plot—and that she may have been an unwitting participant. Enter Asey Mayo, Cape Cod’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. Armed only with folksy wisdom, Cape Cod dictums, and plenty of common sense, the jack-of-all-trades is quick to tackle the puzzling case of the murdered performer. But in order to solve the case, he’ll have to confront a curious assortment of clues and suspects odder than any he’s encountered in his long career. An amusing and atmospheric mystery set in early 1930s Cape Cod—a region still struggling to reemerge from the Great Depression and at the same time carefully guarding itself against the burgeoning tourism industry—The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players is a delightful Golden Age whodunnit that glimmers with period detail. Anyone interested in classics of the era, or in Cape Cod history in general, will find plenty to enjoy herein.
Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1933 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
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Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1961 |
Genre | : Cape Cod (Mass.) |
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Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2018-07-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479418587 |
When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer. First in the series.
Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780881501452 |
Miss Prudence Whitsby becomes involved in crime detection when she attends a Cape Cod house party
Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : Wildside Press LLC |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2020-07-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1479451533 |
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 Mayo adventure full of sparkling wit and crisp dialogue.
Author | : Craig Rice |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2018-03-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504050258 |
From the “grand dame of mystery mixed with screwball comedy”: The children of a widowed mystery writer play amateur sleuths and matchmakers (Ed Gorman, Ellery Queen Award–winning author). When your mom’s a mystery writer, a talent for detection is only natural. So when the three children of prolific whodunit author Marion Carstairs become material witnesses in a neighborhood murder, they launch their own investigation. And why not? They know everything about baffling mysteries from reading their mother’s books, the publicity could do wonders for her sales, and then she and a handsome detective could fall in love. It’s too perfect for words. Marion’s too busy wrapping up the loose ends of her latest book for the inconvenience of a real crime. But what’s surfacing in the shadows of the house next door is not quite as predictable as fiction: accusations of racketeering, kidnapping and blackmail; a slain stripper; a grieving but slippery husband; a wily French artist; a panicky movie star; and a cop who’s working Marion’s last nerve. If the kids are game, Marion decides she is too—in between chapters, at least. Besides, this whole dangerous bloody mess could turn out to be a source of inspiration! This stand-alone mystery was the basis for the classic 1946 comedy starring Randolph Scott and Peggy Ann Garner and “makes clear why Craig Rice remains one of the best writers of mystery fiction” (Jeffery Marks, author of Who Was That Lady?).
Author | : Michele R. McPhee |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2009-08-04 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 1429925655 |
The Cape Cod beach town of Falmouth seemed like a lovely place to visit. But those who lived there year-round knew its other, darker side... Local businessman and infamous bully Melvin Reine had started setting the homes of his so-called enemies on fire. Few of his victims—or even the police—ever dared to implicate him. Because those who did would pay the price... Mysterious events kept creeping up in Falmouth. The disappearance of Melvin's wife, a dead man found in a cranberry bog, a teenager slated to testify against Melvin who boarded a ferry, never to be seen again—was Melvin somehow responsible? Only one police officer, John Busby, had the guts to press him for answers. One day he found himself on the wrong end of a sawed-off shotgun...but managed to survive the attack. This is the shocking true story about what can happen to an all-American town WHEN EVIL RULES.
Author | : Frances Noyes Hart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
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Author | : Janet G. Husband |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 793 |
Release | : 2009-07-30 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838909671 |
A guide to series fiction lists popular series, identifies novels by character, and offers guidance on the order in which to read unnumbered series.