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Asey Mayo, the Sherlock of Cape Cod, investigates the murder of a local innkeeper.
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Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.
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The best selling novelist was dead in the summer house.
The millionaire was in the pillory in the town square.
The village idiot was guarding him with a twenty-foot bullwhip.
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When his best friend is accused of murdering Dale Sanborn, a vacationing writer, Asey Mayo is determined to solve the case, even if his only clue is a sardine can.
There’s been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.
Asey Mayo is determined to find out who put the bullet hole in his hat and who murdered Vivian Garth.
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.
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Jane Lennox discovers the body of Henry Slocum, an ambitious politician, but when Asey Mayo investigates, the body has vanished without a trace.
Surely, under whatever pseudonym, Mrs. Taylor is the mystery equivalent of Buster Keaton. -Dilys Winn
Asey Mayo investigates a poisoning among a group of snowed-in house party guests.
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…
Fans of Asey Mayo will welcome another of his classic Cape Cod adventures. In Punch with Care, Asey suspects the Douglasses of foul play when the corpse of their house…
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 mysterious arrival and subsequent disappearance of a package sets Leonidas off on a furious chase around Dalton, where he is only briefly interrupted by the discovery of the corpse…
A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…
The Codfish Sherlock Holmes solves a whodunnit in 1930s Cape Cod
Alice Tilton
