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  • Sandbar Sinister

    When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of trouble along with it in this classic case for Asey Mayo, the Cape's answer to Sherlock Holmes.The picturesque Cape Cod village of East Pochet is not its usual self when Elizabeth Colton arrives. The previous evening, a bootlegger dumped two hundred cases of liquor offshore, and the whole town endeavored to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern

    Series series American Mystery Classics
    Asey Mayo, the Sherlock of Cape Cod, investigates the murder of a local innkeeper.In a small Cape Cod town, a local tavern owner is convinced that someone is trying to kill her. She tells tales of being shot at in the woods and of a trip wire strung up at the top of her staircase. Others in the village think she's just out for some free publicity, as she's always cooking up creative ways to get ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

    An Asey Mayo Mystery

    Series series American Mystery Classics
    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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Cape Cod Mystery

    "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."—The New York TimesMURDER ON THE CAPEThe best-selling novelist is dead in the summer house.The millionaire is in the pillory in the town square.The village idiot is guarding him with a twenty-foot bullwhip.The bridge champion ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beginning with a Bash

    First published in the US in 1933 in magazine form and later in 1937 in book form, ''Beginning with a Bash'' is a "screwball" comedy mystery set in a bone-chilling Boston winter. It marks the debut of the Leonidas Witherall series, written by Phoebe Atwood Taylor under the pseudonym Alice Tilton. The story follows Martin Jones, a man who is being chased by police after being accused of stealing ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Beginning with a Bash

    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 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Cape Cod Mystery

    First published in the US in 1931 by Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis, ''The Cape Cod Mystery'' is the first whodunnit to feature the series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". 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 ... Read more

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  • Punch with Care: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery

    First published in the US in 1946 by Farrar, Straus and Company, New York. 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 ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • Diplomatic Corpse

    First published in the US in 1951 by Little, Brown: Boston. When a cast member of a New England historical pageant is murdered, Asey Mayo is called in to investigate. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • The Iron Clew

    The Iron Clew - A Leonidas Witherall Mystery"Wilder and more diverting experiences than those which befall Leonidas Witherall are seldom found anywhere except in books by Alice Tilton (Phoebe Atwood Taylor)."—The New York TimesFrom the jacket:"Leonidas Witherall, who is the splitting image of Bill Shakespeare, runs pell-mell into another amazing mystery, written in superlative humor-cum-homicide ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery

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

    $2.99 USD

  • The Cape Cod Mystery

    Series series American Mystery Classics
    The "Codfish Sherlock Holmes" solves a whodunnit in 1930s Cape Cod.Meet Asey Mayo, Cape Cod's answer to Sherlock Holmes. Settled down from his former life as a seafaring adventurer, Asey is a Jack-of-all-trades who uses his worldly knowledge, folksy wisdom, and plain common sense to solve the most puzzling crimes to strike the peninsula. And in this, his first case, Asey finds himself embroiled in ... Read more

    $13.99 USD