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Language English Publication date 1934 OCLC 12655032 Country United States of America | 3.4/5 Goodreads Series Asey Mayo Pages 283 pp Originally published 1934 Publisher W. W. Norton & Company | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Preceded by The mystery of the Cape Cod players Genres Mystery, Detective fiction Similar Deathblow Hill, The Tinkling Symbol, The six iron spiders, Out of Order, Punch With Care | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern, first published in 1934, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Plot summary
Eve Prence is the glamorous and publicity-seeking owner of the famous Cape Cod Tavern, and uses her publicity to keep the Tavern filled with famous and/or wealthy guests. She has a house-full the night she's found at the bottom of the grand staircase, claiming somebody had tried to kill her. The following day, she is found with a knife in her ribs. Asey Mayo must work out the meaning of clues like a pair of antique pistols that contain a pair of antique daggers, and what exactly the blind boy on the scene of the crime heard, and a pair of dirty indentations on a windowsill before bringing home the crime to a surprising figure.