Asey Mayo Series by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo #2
Death Lights a Candle
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
It promised to be a cozy weekend house party on the Cape, but none of the guests had foreseen such a snowfall, none was prepared to be completely cut off, without heat, light or telephone. And certainly none had expected to find the host, Albert Stires, dead in his bedroom.Fortunately, Asey Mayo happens to be on the scene. At first, Stires seems to be the victim of arsenic, and suddenly there are too many suspects with far too easy access to the poison. But then Asey discovers a most ingenious murder weapon, virtually unknown in the twentieth century, which destroys its evidence as it works on its victim. Just as it nearly succeeds in working upon Asey himself!
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Asey Mayo #10
Figure Away
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
As the tourists arrive on the Cape for the summer a series of odd events – fires, shots in the night, thefts – threatens to scare them off. The homespun detective is called in to save the day – and finds a corpse in Hell Hollow. With the aid of Cousin Syl and his wife, Asey outwits both the State Police and the murderer.
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Asey Mayo #20
Going Going Gone
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
When an art auction ends in murder, unlikely sleuth Asey Mayo embarks on a search for the perpetrator in a crime that could by linked to the fierce competition between rival art dealers Miss Pitkin and Mr. Harmsworth, the discovery of an unexpected treasure, or the secrets of Quin Sharp, the auctioneer, in a mystery set on Cape Cod.
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Asey Mayo #23
Punch With Care
Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey thought the Douglasses' behavior a bit suspicious when their imposing houseguest, writer and educator Carolyn Barton Boone, couldn't be found. Then Asey, in the company of Doc Cummings, happened to find her corpse over at Pochet Point in an antique Pullman railroad car, a punched green ticket in her hand. It was only when this singular cadaver abruptly vanished that things really began to get complicated, not to say downright threatening.
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