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Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Full Series List in Order
An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery
1 - The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)2 - Death Lights a Candle (1932)
3 - The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
4 - The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
5 - Sandbar Sinister (1934)
6 - The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
7 - Deathblow Hill (1935)
8 - The Crimson Patch (1936)
9 - Out of Order (1936)
10 - Figure Away (1937)
11 - Octagon House (1937)
12 - The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
13 - Banbury Bog (1938)
14 - Spring Harrowing (1939)
15 - The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
16 - Criminal C O D (1940)
17 - The Perennial Boarder (1941)
18 - Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
19 - The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
20 - Going, Going, Gone (1943)
21 - Proof of the Pudding (1945)
22 - Punch With Care (1946)
23 - The Asey Mayo Trio (1946)
24 - Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
Book List in Order: 25 titles
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The Cape Cod Mystery
- 1931
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First published in the US in 1931 by Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis, ''The Cape Cod Mystery'' is the first whodunnit to feature the series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". Dale Sanborn has made a lot of enemies in his career as a muck...
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Death Lights a Candle
- 1932
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There's been no shortage of trouble on Cape Cod that March. A house party of men and women has been snowed inand cut off from the world outside. The host is murdered. Poisoning, the doctor says; probably arsenic. But almost everyone is found to ha...
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
- 1933
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John "Red" Gilpin, the magician, was irresistible to the women. lie was good at pullling rabbits out of hats, but he may have had a few other tricks up his sleeve. For when he met up with the other travelling players on the Cape, someone promptly put...
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern
- 1934
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Asey Mayo, the Sherlock of Cape Cod, investigates the murder of a local innkeeper. In a small Cape Cod town, a local tavern owner is convinced that someone is trying to kill her. She tells tales of being shot at in the woods and of a trip wire strung...
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Deathblow Hill
- 1935
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1993 Foul Play Press MASS MARKET PAPERBACK, 2nd printing. Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery). The forbidding chain link fence topped with barbed wire strands looked out of place on the Cape. But it did its job, sepa...
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The Tinkling Symbol
- 1935
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A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.
The residents of West Weesit had good reason to start calling Crooked Cliff "Suicide Cliff." Four women's bodies had been found at its foot, Kay Truman's only last month. Her father, Dave Truman... -
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Figure Away
- 1937
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Flocks of tourists were arriving in Billingsgate for Old Home Week, unaware that odd things had been happening: fires in Town hall, stolen keys, and shots in the dark. Before it all gets further out of hand, Asey Mayo is called in to save the day, ha...
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Octagon House
- 1937
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A LOVELY MODEL MURDERED and Asey Mayo tries to comfort her sister, WHO HATED THE VICTIM. Money might have been a motive since there was A CLEAR CASE OF BLACKMAIL, but why would anyone paint over a mural except TO COVER UP A CLUE OR TWO? It...
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The Annulet of Gilt
- 1938
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Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody'...
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Banbury Bog
- 1938
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A LOVABLE MILLIONAIRE who baked poisoned tarts. A TOOTHSOME SWEET YOUNG THING with and expensive sweet tooth for men. TWO DISTINGUISHED CITIZENS found drowned on dry land. AN INTIRE TOWN that hated the man who saved it. A DETERMINED D...
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Spring Harrowing
- 1939
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On peaceful Cape Cod, the eccentric collector lies dead on his study floor, his body ripped by a deadly claw. Outside a wealthy young widow scours the dark countryside for her missing wild cats, and down the road the neighbors play a strange game, a ...
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Criminal C O D
- 1940
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A classic Phoebe Atwood Taylor mystery.
Something must have scared the wits out of Jane Lennox to make her run right in front of Asey Mayo in his brand new Porter Sixteen. Could that something have been the sight of a corpse? And could it have... -
The Perennial Boarder
- 1941
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This time, Asey has to deal with a corpse that won't stay put. It all begins when Asey and Cousin Jenny encounter a woman in a terrible hurry in a hailstorm on the way to Quisset. Later that evening she turns up dead in a phone booth at the Whale Inn...
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The Six Iron Spiders
- 1942
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Another classic Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery.
While on leave from the Porter factory, Asey Mayo discovers a murder in the buttery of his Cape Cod home. Mayo's investigation amid the deprivations of the war years―rationing, suspicion, preparedn... -
Three Plots for Asey Mayo
- 1942
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Nora Latimer doesn't know the girl with the Wander Bird trailer, or what she's doing on her Weesit property. She doesn't know the dead man in the trailer, either. So naturally she turns to Asey Mayo in "The Wander Bird Plot." Asey surely didn't tr...
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Going, Going, Gone
- 1943
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There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.
An auction that begins as a treasure hunt ends in murder, and an incredible discovery sends our unlikely detective off on a hunt for a killer. Wer... -
Proof of the Pudding
- 1945
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Who bashed the girl on the beach? Half the town--and the state cops--figured it was Asey Mayo, paying off an old grudge. With only hours to solve the crime, Asey set off at a run--and ran smack into such oddities as a square plum pudding--an addle...
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The Asey Mayo Trio
- 1946
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Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody'...
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Punch With Care
- 1946
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First published in the US in 1946 by Farrar, Straus and Company, New York. 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 ...
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Diplomatic Corpse
- 1951
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First published in the US in 1951 by Little, Brown: Boston. When a cast member of a New England historical pageant is murdered, Asey Mayo is called in to investigate....
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