Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Deathblow Hill (USA 1993)

From the Publisher:
"... the author plays absolutely fair with the reader. You'll have fun matching wits with Asey to determine the culprit." -- The News (Stockbridge, MA)
The forbidding chain link fence topped with barbed wire strands looked out of place on the Cape. But it did its job, separating the two feuding factions of the Howes family. On one side sat the boarding house known as Deathblow Hill, from which Suzanne Howes warily regarded the decidedly odd Simon Keiths across the way. And so it would continue, at least as long as the whereabouts of Bellamy Howes' fortune remained unknown to his descendants.

But now old Keith seemed to be up to something. There were certain weird happenings to account for: two ransacked houses, mysterious prowlers sporting yellow handkerchiefs, and two possible near garottings. And if all these developments failed to add up to a nice mystery for Asey Mayo, suddenly the famous tycoon Benjamin Carson shows up incognito on the doorstep of Deathblow Hill -- a victim of brutal strangulation.

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The Countryman Press, Inc.
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Deathblow Hill. An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. The Countryman Press, ISBN: 0881502626 (March, 1993), 286 p., $6.50.