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.
 First edition | |
| Author | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Series | Asey Mayo |
| Genre | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher | Bobbs-Merrill |
Publication date | 1931 |
| Publication place | USA |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985) |
| Followed by | Death Lights a Candle (1932) |
According to The New York Times, "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."[1]
Plot summary
editDale 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 fiancée, 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.[2]
Storytel summarized the book as such: "When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer."[3]
Reference
edit- ^ The Cape Cod Mystery.
- ^ "Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Cape Cod Mystery". The Mysterious Bookshop. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
- ^ "The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery - Ebook - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - ISBN 9781479418589 - Storytel". www.storytel.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
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