Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Annulet of Gilt (1986)

From the Publisher:
"You may well develop a permanent taste for these farce-melodramas starring Asey Mayo." -- Anthony Boucher
"Asey, what is an annulet?" This innocent question would soon lead to further not-so-innocent questions. For starters, how did Asey's hat wind up on the beach with a bullet hole through it? Who tied up Cousin Syl's wife and threw her in the closet? Who was discourteous enough to strangle much-married Vivian Garth with someone else's belt? And who could predict that before this was ended, Asey would be tricked several times over, decoyed, robbed, and baffled by an elephant?

PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR wrote more than thirty mysteries in her lifetime featuring Asey Mayo and Leonidas Witherall, William Shakespeare's Boston look-alike.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Annulet of Gilt. An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. Woodstock, Vt.: Countryman Press / Foul Play Press, 1986, ISBN: 088150078X, 286 p., $5.95.