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Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D. (USA 2007) From the Publisher: Something must have scared the wits out of Jane Lennox to make her run right in front of Asey Mayo in his brand new Porter Sixteen. Could that something have been the sight of a corpse? And could it have been the body of politically ambitious Henry Slocum? The answer would have to wait, for the corpse in the old salt loft had vanished from sight. This one would prove to be a real challenge for the Codfish Sherlock as further sinister and hilarious developments upset the normally tranquil Quashnet Township. Phoebe Atwood Taylor, born in 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, was the first member of her family to have been born off Cape Cod in more than 300 years. Upon graduating from Manhattan's Barnard College, she moved to Weston, Massachusetts, to pen her first work, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), which was published when she was 22. The book was written while Taylor was caring for her invalid aunt, Alice Tilton (the source of one of her two publishing pseudonyms, the other being Freeman Dana). Taylor was one of the first mystery writers to give a regional and rural rather than urban focus during the time known as the "golden age" of mystery writing (1918-39). Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, was a great fan of the Asey Mayo series, and encouraged Taylor to pack the books with Cape Cod detail. In all, she authored 33 books. She died in 1976 at age 67. Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D.. An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. Countryman Press / Foul Play Press, ISBN: 0881501069 (June, 2007), 290 p., $10.95.
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D. (USA 1988) From the Publisher: Something must have scared the wits out of Jane Lennox to make her run right in front of Asey Mayo in his brand new Porter Sixteen. Could that something have been the sight of a corpse? And could it have been the body of politically ambitious Henry Slocum? The answer would have to wait, for the corpse in the old salt loft had vanished from sight. This one would prove to be a real challenge for the Codfish Sherlock as further sinister and hilarious developments upset the normally tranquil Quashnet Township. PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR (1909-1976) lived in Boston and Cape Cod for most of her life. Best known as the creator of the Asey Mayo series, she also wrote as Alice Tilton and Freeman Dana. A Foul Play Press Book Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D.. The Countryman Press, ISBN: 0881501069 (June, 1988), 290 p., $5.95.
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Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D. (USA 1972) From the Publisher: A stranger skulking in the dunes The whole thing was plumb crazy, and before Asey got to the bottom of things, he had smashed up his new custom-built car, lost a very dead body, and been severely biffed on the head with a gun butt! "Asey Mayo stories are always full of salty flavor and corking characters. More detective stories should be like those of Phoebe Atwood Taylor." -- New York Herald Tribune And don't miss these other fascinating Asey Mayo mysteries Inisde: So began one of Asey Mayo's wildest adventures, aided and abetted by Doc Cummings, Lieutenant Hanson, and a charming scatterbrained girl with an unfortunate tendency to scream at the wrong moments. "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 Times "A detective who may soon enter that gallery of eccentric originals where are enthroned already Dr. Fell, Poirot, Peter Wimsey, Father Brown, and the great Sherlock himself..." -- The Spectator Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Criminal C.O.D.. Pyramid Books, ISBN: 0515027553 (July, 1972), 189 p., 95¢.
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