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    Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909-1976) was one of the most beloved and most successful mystery authors of the 1930s and 1940s, writing under her own name and two pseudonyms, Freeman Dana and Alice Tilton. The Asey Mayo character, first introduced in The Cape Cod Mystery, went on to star in 24 novels in a series informed by the author’s generations-long family history in Cape Cod.

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909-1976) was one of the most beloved and most successful mystery authors of the 1930s and 1940s, writing under her own name and two pseudonyms, Freeman Dana and Alice Tilton. The Asey Mayo character, first introduced in The Cape Cod Mystery, went on to star in 24 novels in a series informed by the author’s generations-long family history in Cape Cod.

    Books by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

    • The Cut Direct

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

    • The Annulet of Gilt: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      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...

    • The Criminal C. O. D.

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      A classic Phoebe Atwood Taylor mystery.

    • The Asey Mayo Trio: Three Cape Cod Mysteries

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      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...

    • The Six Iron Spiders

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      Another classic Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery.

    • The Perennial Boarder

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      The familiar Cape Cod setting works its spell, and the cranky, colorful New England characters work their way through a deftly amusing and baffling story of plot and counterplot.

    • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1999

      There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

    • The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      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...

    • Punch with Care

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor

      Paperback, 1996

      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...

    • The Cape Cod Mystery

      Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Otto Penzler

      Paperback, 2022

      The “Codfish Sherlock Holmes” solves a whodunnit in 1930s Cape Cod

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