| The Cape Cod Mystery | |
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1st edition |
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| Author(s) | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
| Country | USA |
| Language | English |
| Series | Asey Mayo |
| Genre(s) | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill |
| Publication date | 1931 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985) |
| ISBN | NA |
| Followed by | Death Lights a Candle (1932) |
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.
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.
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