Bøger af Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Asey Mayo fans, and newcomers, will have much to discover in Death Lights a Candle, with its special New England flavor and Cape Cod characters. As Marilyn Stasio, columnist for the New York Times writes, "Taylor's droll period whodunits are a special treat, thanks to the Codfish Sherlock, Asey Mayo, a salty Cape codger who entertains summer visitors by solving picturesque crimes."

Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.

There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

The familiar Cape Cod setting works its spell, and the cranky, colorful New England characters work their way through a deftly amusing and baffling story of plot and counterplot.

The mysterious arrival and subsequent disappearance of a package sets Leonidas off on a furious chase around Dalton, where he is only briefly interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of banker Fenwick Balderston, who has been bashed over the head with a small bust of William Shakespeare.

"Surely, under whatever pseudonym, Mrs. Taylor is the mystery equivalent of Buster Keaton." -Dilys Winn