The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players: An Asey Mayo Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)

The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players: An Asey Mayo Mystery (An American Mystery Classic)
Title The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players: An Asey Mayo Mystery (An American Mystery Classic) PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher Penzler Publishers
Pages 266
Release 2024-04-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1613164947

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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.

The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
Title The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1933
Genre Detective and mystery stories
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
Title The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher
Pages 392
Release 1961
Genre Cape Cod (Mass.)
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The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery

The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery
Title The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher Wildside Press LLC
Pages 221
Release 2018-07-25
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1479418587

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

Death Lights a Candle

Death Lights a Candle
Title Death Lights a Candle PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries
Pages 304
Release 2005
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9780881501452

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Miss Prudence Whitsby becomes involved in crime detection when she attends a Cape Cod house party

Punch with Care

Punch with Care
Title Punch with Care PDF eBook
Author Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Publisher Wildside Press LLC
Pages 223
Release 2020-07-16
Genre Fiction
ISBN 1479451533

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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.

When Evil Rules

When Evil Rules
Title When Evil Rules PDF eBook
Author Michele R. McPhee
Publisher Macmillan
Pages 221
Release 2009-08-04
Genre True Crime
ISBN 1429925655

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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.