The Asey Mayo Trio: Three Mystery Stories [Paperback]

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2005

"The Third Murderer" - On the third occasion of moving the old Snow house, a young woman's body turns up in a Dutch oven.

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About the Author

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909-1976) lived in Boston and Cape Cod for most of her life. She was the author of the Asey Mayo mystery series and, under the pseudonym Alice Tilton, the Leonidas Witherall mystery series. She also wrote under the name Freeman Dana (Murder at the New York World's Fair).

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Countryman Press; Reprint, 1st as such edition (February 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881501719
• ISBN-13: 978-0881501711
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,001,134 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Cape Cod Sherlock, August 15, 2000

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This review is from: The Asey Mayo Trio: Three Mystery Stories (Paperback)

Asey Mayo is the definitive Cape Codder- a jack-of-all-trades, his age is a mystery, and his accent is so thick no outsider can understand him. These stories are a great introduction to the sleuth of the people, the Cape Cod Sherlock Holmes. Asey stumbles across several strange situations, gets tangled up in a few murders, and manages to solve the unsolvable puzzles that stump the general population of the one horse towns of 1930's Cape Cod. The local color in this book is great! Feels almost as though you're strolling down the Main Street of Wellfleet or Orleans; or racing around on the dirt back roads of Eastham during a thunderstorm, chasing the bad guys... Don't miss out on a tasty slice of American culture!