Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor Year: 1931 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Mystery
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ISBNs: 9780881500462 0881500461 |
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'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 Times MURDER ON THE CAPE The 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 is under arrest for stealing his own car. The doctor is trying to get everyone in sight jailed for murder. Dale Sanborn had as many visitors the night he was killed as if he'd been the most popular man on Cape Cod. One of them killed him--that was sure. The only trouble was, any of them could have'and all of them wanted to. Ginger, Miss Prue's cat, ran into Dale Sanborn's shack. When Miss Prudence cautiously entered, Ginger was lapping oil from a sardine tin that lay next to the corpse of a celebrated novelist. When the local sheriff rounded up his suspects, they included Bill Porter, the millionaire who lived in Wellfleet because he hated cities and loved Miss Prue's niece, Betsey; Johnny Kurth, and his divorced wife, both of whom tried to wangle invitations for the same weekend; and Betsey's college friend who had hair like a chrysanthemum. But Asey Mayo, Bill Porter's man of all work, a lean old Cape Codder whose maxim was "Common Sense," puts his sharp wits to work to save Bill from being indicted. For the sheriff was so convinced of Bill's guilt that he put him into the pillory the town made for its tercentenary celebration. Asey Mayo is an unusual type of detective. His observations are sage and his humor is infectious. The New York Herald Tribune: "Asey Mayo stories are always full of salty flavor with corking characters. More detective stories should be like those of Phoebe Atwood Taylor."
This book is part of the "Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series:
 | "Proof of the Pudding" First published in 1945 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Spring Harrowing" First published in 1939 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Banbury Bog" First published in 1938 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Octagon House" First published in 1937 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Figure Away" First published in 1937 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Sandbar Sinister" First published in 1936 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "Out of Order" First published in 1936 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
 | "The Tinkling Symbol" First published in 1935 Rank: , Original star rating: , Adjusted star rating: , Pop rating: |
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