The Mystery Of The Cape Cod Players An Asey Mayo Mystery An American Mystery Classic
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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 | : American Mystery Classics |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781613164938 |
Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.
Author | : Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 1987-03-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780881500912 |
Asey Mayo tries to find out why someone has killed a travelling magician who seemed irresistible to women.
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 | : 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 | : 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 | : Frances Noyes Hart |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Detective and mystery stories |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Todd Downing |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-03-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1504061578 |
A customs agent must track down a killer on a train barreling across the Texas border into Mexico . . . When a train leaves Laredo en route to Mexico City, the trip turns terrifying as one passenger after another falls victim to murder. Will anyone make it to their destination alive? Fortunately, Hugh Rennert—US Customs agent and amateur detective—is on board, and his investigation will proceed full steam ahead . . . “You won’t go wrong in giving Todd Downing a try.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post
Author | : Dolores Hitchens |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-06-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 161316212X |
An elderly woman drugged, a young woman killed, and the cat’s the sole witness… When Rachel Murdock and her sister Jennifer receive a call for help from their favorite niece, Lilly, in Breakers Beach, CA, they quickly hop a train from Los Angeles to see her — but not before collecting their prized cat Samantha in a picnic basket and bringing her along for the ride. Samatha, it turns out, is an heiress, the inheritor of a fortune left by a wealthy relative, and so the attempt at the cat’s life, made right after they arrive, comes as a shock. The cat survives, but unfortunately, Lilly, murdered soon thereafter, is not so lucky. By the time the police arrive, the clues are already falling into place. The source of Lilly’s trouble is revealed to be a gambling debt incurred during an attempt to cheat at bridge, and the suspects in her slaying quickly pile up. But then another corpse is discovered, buried in the nearby sand, and it becomes clear that the killing spree concerns more than just the young lady’s personal money trouble. With the authorities distracted by lurid details, it’s up to Rachel and her furry friend to uncover the subtleties containing the solution to the puzzle. A prototypical early “cat mystery,” written before the subgenre became a staple of cozy mystery fiction, The Cat Saw Murder is an entertaining and endlessly surprising whodunit with a focus on felines. Reissued for the first time in over half a decade, the book, written pseudonymously by the author better known for her hardboiled and suspense novels, is the first in the long-running Rachel Murdock series. Includes discussion guide questions for use in book clubs.
Author | : Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf |
Publisher | : Saint James Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781558624337 |
These volumes present essays offering critical, biographical, and bibliographical information on each writer.