Spring Harrowing (An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery) [Paperback]

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Foul Play Pr (April 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0881501379
• ISBN-13: 978-0881501377
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,622,949 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars One Surprising Development after Another., May 23, 2005

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Lorraine Talbot (Winsted,, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Spring Harrowing (An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery) (Paperback)

The story opens with Asey's housekeeper-cousin upset with him because he allowed his photo to be taken for the cover of the NEWSORGAN magazine wearing his old clothes. The set-to is interrupted by the arrival of a friend in an antique Porter car that Asey had a lot to do with perfecting years before.
The next morning this friend, Bart Paget, is found dead of a clawing. There's a wealthy young widow who keeps a pair of lynx cats as pets -- Smith and Wesson are their names and someone has let them out of their cage.
Asey sets about investigating and sorthing out a bunch of characters that include a flighty, impetious neighbor, her ex-Navy son and a live-in friend who is a fortune teller. There's a one armed man who's obsessive about his small golf course, a sunken ship that has re-surfaced in a recent storm and a pretty young woman who knows too much and becomes the second victim.
There's suspense, but it's not intense. There are murders, but they are not graphically violent, there old-fashioned detecting such as you'd find in an Agatha Christie book and there's humor. I often find myself chuckling at the antics of the characters in these mysteries. This is a good one and one of my favorites.