The Cape Cod Mystery

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." ^[1]

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. ^[2]

Storytel summarized the book as such: "When a famous author turns up dead, it's up to Asey Mayo to find the killer." ^[3]

References

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