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Language English Publication date 1931 Country United States of America | 3.7/5 Goodreads Series Asey Mayo Originally published 1931 Publisher Bobbs-Merrill Company Followed by Death lights a candle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985) Genres Mystery, Detective fiction Similar Phoebe Atwood Taylor books, Mystery books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Cape Cod Mystery, first published in 1931, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, the first to feature her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Plot summary
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 fiancee, an outraged husband, a long-lost brother and a few more—the night he died could have killed him, and all of them wanted to. When a respectable Boston matron is involved in the crime, local character Asey Mayo takes a hand and brings the case to a successful, if unexpected, conclusion.
References
The Cape Cod Mystery Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA