Three Plots for Asey Mayo
Three Plots for Asey Mayo

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Publisher: St. Swithin Press

Published:

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1927551439

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Asey solves the Swan Boat Murder “in the best Mayo manner [and] the other two stories are just as good.”—The New York Times Top-notch entertainment for mystery readers is contained in this volume made up of three Asey Mayo short novels, each replete with the excitement, the humor and the amusing characterisations that have distinguished all of this author’s popular books about the famous Cape Cod sleuth. In “The Headacre Plot,” murder is all tied up with an eccentric millionaire’s hobby for wooden Indians and merry-go-round horses, which play a neat part in the solution of the killing of Colonel Head. “The Wander Bird Plot” concerns the girl, Cordelia, her angry uncle, and the unfortunate and very dead gentleman found in their trailer. The third of the stories takes its title, “The Swan Boat Plot,” from its locale in Boston’s Public Garden, near the famed swan boats. Asey Mayo witnesses the shooting of a young photographer and is called upon to solve a case that involves Boston’s glamour girl and leads him on a fine chase through Boston’s old brick-bordered streets.

The Asey Mayo Trio
The Asey Mayo Trio

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Publisher: Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries

Published: 2005-02

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 9780881501711

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Set within the brooding landscape of Cape Code, these classic who-dunits are sure to please dedicated Phoebe Atwood Taylor fans and newcomer mystery buffs alike. Asey Mayo fans will be delighted to find the codfish Sherlock not once, but thrice perplexed in these incomparable novellas: Murder Rides the Gale, The Stars Spell Death, and The Third Murderer.

Death Lights a Candle
Death Lights a Candle

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Publisher: Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 9780881501452

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Miss Prudence Whitsby becomes involved in crime detection when she attends a Cape Cod house party

The Penguin Pool Murder
The Penguin Pool Murder

Author: Stuart Palmer

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-05-14

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1480418811

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On a trip to the New York Aquarium with her third-grade class, a teacher discovers a dead body: “One of the world’s shrewdest and most amusing detectives” (The New York Times). For the third graders at Jefferson School, a field trip is always a treat. But one day at the New York Aquarium, they get much more excitement than they bargained for. A pickpocket sprints past, stolen purse in hand, and is making his way to the exit when their teacher, the prim Hildegarde Withers, knocks him down with her umbrella. By the time the police and the security guards finish arguing about what to do with Chicago Lew, he has escaped, and Miss Withers has found something far more interesting: a murdered stockbroker floating in the penguin tank. With the help of Detective Oscar Piper, this no-nonsense spinster embarks on her first of many adventures. The mystery is baffling, the killer dangerous, but for a woman who can control a gaggle of noisy third graders, murder isn’t frightening at all. The Penguin Pool Murder is part of the Hildegarde Withers Mysteries series, which also includes Murder on the Blackboard and Murder on Wheels.

The Iron Clew
The Iron Clew

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Publisher: Foul Play Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 9780881502411

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Leonidas Witherall, Phoebe Atwood Taylor's “other” detective, inhabits a suburb of Boston named Dalton. One of its most colorful residents, he is the proprietor of a prestigious boys' school and instantly recognizable by all as William Shakespeare's remarkable look-alike. Few people, however, know him as “Morgatroyd Jones,” author of the popular and flamboyant Lieutenant Haseltine adventure novels. But like his own fictional hero, Witherall's outrageous escapades mix slapstick and suspense like no one else's.

Banbury Bog
Banbury Bog

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Publisher: Countryman Press

Published: 1987-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780881500905

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An Asey Mayo Cape Cod adventure, wherein Asey Mayo must find out why someone is trying to discredit a millionaire banker.

Vultures in the Sky
Vultures in the Sky

Author: Todd Downing

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2020-03-10

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1504061578

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A customs agent must track down a killer on a train barreling across the Texas border into Mexico . . . When a train leaves Laredo en route to Mexico City, the trip turns terrifying as one passenger after another falls victim to murder. Will anyone make it to their destination alive? Fortunately, Hugh Rennert—US Customs agent and amateur detective—is on board, and his investigation will proceed full steam ahead . . . “You won’t go wrong in giving Todd Downing a try.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Deadlier Than The Male
Deadlier Than The Male

Author: Jessica Mann

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2015-01-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1783016272

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Why are English women so good at murder? Among the books which have survived for more than half a century, always in print and always in demand, are the murder mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers, Agatha Christie and other women writers. Yet their male competitors are mostly forgotten. What is it about these womens' work that has kept it alive? And what was it about the authors that gave them such violent or cunning imaginations, always hidden behind the most respectable of facades? In this book, first published in 1981, Jessica Mann brings the perception of a fellow crime writer to her investigation of her predecessors' lives and work. She discusses the changes in the mystery form over the years, and its enduring worldwide popularity, in a book that was described by one critic as "e;obligatory reading for any reader of crime fiction"e;, and of which another wrote "e;I cannot recall a better work of criticism devoted to the crime story."e;