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1931 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

The Cape Cod Mystery
First edition
Author	Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Language	English
Series	Asey Mayo
Genre	Mystery, Detective novel
Publisher	Bobbs-Merrill
Publication date	1931
Publication place	USA
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	189 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1985)
Followed by	Death Lights a Candle (1932)

The Cape Cod Mystery, first published in 1931, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, the first to feature her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

According to The New York Times, "Phoebe Atwood Taylor can get more fun into a detective story than any writer at present producing, and with all the fun there is a mystery that is baffling for its own sake."

Plot summary

Dale Sanborn has made a lot of enemies in his career as a muckraking author, philanderer and occasional blackmailer. When he vacations at a cabin in Cape Cod, any of his many visitors—an old girl friend, his fiancée, an outraged husband, a long-lost brother and a few more—the night he died could have killed him, and all of them wanted to. When a respectable Boston matron is involved in the crime, local character Asey Mayo takes a hand and brings the case to a successful, if unexpected, conclusion.

Storytel summarized the book as such: "When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer."

Reference

The Cape Cod Mystery.
"Phoebe Atwood Taylor - The Cape Cod Mystery". The Mysterious Bookshop. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
"The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery - Ebook - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - ISBN 9781479418589 - Storytel". www.storytel.com. Retrieved 2024-06-18.

v t e Mystery novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo volumes	The Cape Cod Mystery (1931) Death Lights a Candle (1932) The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933) The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934) Sandbar Sinister (1934) The Tinkling Symbol (1935) Deathblow Hill (1935) The Crimson Patch (1936) Out of Order (1936) Figure Away (1937) Octagon House (1937) The Annulet of Gilt (1938) Banbury Bog (1938) Spring Harrowing (1939) The Criminal C.O.D. (1940) The Deadly Sunshade (1940) The Perennial Boarder (1941) The Six Iron Spiders (1942) Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942) Going, Going, Gone (1943) Proof of the Pudding (1943) The Asey Mayo Trio (1946) Punch With Care (1946) Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
Leonidas Witherall novels as "Alice Tilton"	Beginning with a Bash (1937) The Cut Direct (1938) Cold Steal (1939) The Left Leg (1940) The Hollow Chest (1941) File For Record (1943) Dead Ernest (1944) The Iron Clew (1947)
As Freeman Dana	Murder at the New York World's Fair (1938)

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