Phoebe Atwood Taylor's Books

When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer. First in the series.

Asey Mayo returns to New England from a vacation in Jamaica in order to settle a fifty thousand dollar bet, and ends up having to solve an unexpected murder

When a cast member of a New England historical pageant is murdered, Asey Mayo is called in to investigate.

Asey Mayo is called to the town of Quanomet when murder and mayhem follow the unveiling of an unflattering portrait of the townspeople at the new post office

An Asey Mayo Cape Cod adventure, wherein Asey Mayo must find out why someone is trying to discredit a millionaire banker.

A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.

Mrs. Daisy Tower, wife of the former governor, discovers a murder victim on the private train of Conrad Cassell, a wealthy art collector enroute to the World's Fair

Asey Mayo tries to find out why someone has killed a travelling magician who seemed irresistible to women.

Asey Mayo, the “Codfish Sherlock Holmes,” investigates the murder of a traveling performer. When the Cape Cod Players roll into towns along the lower Cape, the locals expect a great show, replete with games, magic, and merriment. Of course, they usually have an audience, too. When Boston widow Victoria Ballard, visiting the Cape to recover from a near-fatal bout with pneumonia, comes upon the troupe near her rural convalescent home, she ascertains that someone has played a nasty trick on the players, sending them to a remote destination in the wild backcountry in search of a paying gig. Sympathetic to the plight of the ragtag group, Vic invites them to stay the night with her, but when day breaks to find the lead magician with a bullet in his head, she realizes the cruel trick that brought the travelers to her home may have been part of a deadly plot—and that she may have been an unwitting participant. Enter Asey Mayo, Cape Cod’s answer to Sherlock Holmes. Armed only with folksy wisdom, Cape Cod dictums, and plenty of common sense, the jack-of-all-trades is quick to tackle the puzzling case of the murdered performer. But in order to solve the case, he’ll have to confront a curious assortment of clues and suspects odder than any he’s encountered in his long career. An amusing and atmospheric mystery set in early 1930s Cape Cod—a region still struggling to reemerge from the Great Depression and at the same time carefully guarding itself against the burgeoning tourism industry—The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players is a delightful Golden Age whodunnit that glimmers with period detail. Anyone interested in classics of the era, or in Cape Cod history in general, will find plenty to enjoy herein.

When Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library and Susan Remington has disappeared and her wild cats let loose, Asey Mayo must act quickly to avert the panic sweeping over Quanomet

Set within the brooding landscape of Cape Code, these classic who-dunits are sure to please dedicated Phoebe Atwood Taylor fans and newcomer mystery buffs alike. Asey Mayo fans will be delighted to find the codfish Sherlock not once, but thrice perplexed in these incomparable novellas: Murder Rides the Gale, The Stars Spell Death, and The Third Murderer.

For all its ingenious plot, The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern is more than a mystery; it is a genuine New England novel, full of Yankee horse sense, Cape Cod culture, and solid characters. This classic is an apt accomplice for an evening's excursion into the world of crime for Asey Mayo fans and initiate mystery lovers alike.

Asey Mayo is determined to find out who put the bullet hole in his hat and who murdered Vivian Garth

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 of a wacky murder chase highlighted by the disappearance of the body until after the killer strikes a second time. All in all, it’s a typical Asey Mayo adventure full of sparkling wit and crisp dialogue.

Miss Prudence Whitsby becomes involved in crime detection when she attends a Cape Cod house party

Jane Lennox discovers the body of Henry Slocum, an ambitious politician, but when Asey Mayo investigates, the body has vanished without a trace

The spirit of Asey Mayo's homecoming is quickly dampened by the discovery of a body in the buttery. One fact is clear: Someone murdered Philemon Mundy with a blunt instrument. The sudden disappearance of the corpse is only the first of many baffling developments. And there is no guarantee that the killer won't strike again.

Asey Mayo and his cousin Jennie investigate the bizarre case of Miss Olive Beadle, a resident at the Whale Inn, whose seemingly lifeless body mysteriously disappears only to turn up later on the porch of the Inn

Asey solves the Swan Boat Murder “in the best Mayo manner [and] the other two stories are just as good.”—The New York Times Top-notch entertainment for mystery readers is contained in this volume made up of three Asey Mayo short novels, each replete with the excitement, the humor and the amusing characterisations that have distinguished all of this author’s popular books about the famous Cape Cod sleuth. In “The Headacre Plot,” murder is all tied up with an eccentric millionaire’s hobby for wooden Indians and merry-go-round horses, which play a neat part in the solution of the killing of Colonel Head. “The Wander Bird Plot” concerns the girl, Cordelia, her angry uncle, and the unfortunate and very dead gentleman found in their trailer. The third of the stories takes its title, “The Swan Boat Plot,” from its locale in Boston’s Public Garden, near the famed swan boats. Asey Mayo witnesses the shooting of a young photographer and is called upon to solve a case that involves Boston’s glamour girl and leads him on a fine chase through Boston’s old brick-bordered streets.

The sign said COME IN AND BROWSE—IT’S WARM INSIDE. Martin Jones made the mistake of his life when he joined the others inside the bookstore. One of them, Professor John North, would soon be dead. And Martin is going to be the prime suspect. Luckily for Martin the bookstore is owned by his friend Dot Peters, who knows he's innocent. Even with the able assistance of Leonidas Xenophon "Bill" Witherall, the retired headmaster of the Boston academy which Martin once attended, can she prove his innocence?

Buff" Orpington arrived in picturesque Quanomet to find the little Cape Cod town in ferment. A stupendous pageant of American history was being staged, and the inhabitants of Quanomet had time and thought for nothing else. But all was not as it should be in the small community. There had been more curious incidents than could be attributed to the usual petty jealousies and maneuverings for the best parts and positions. Quanomet was, in fact, in its modest way about to make history, and Buff finds himself taking an uncomfortably prominent role when he discovers a newly made corpse in the cemetery. After too long an absence, Asey Mayo, the salty Cape Cod Sherlock, returns in fine form to solve the baffling murder in his own inimitable way.

When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer. First in the series.

Book's by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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