Figure Away (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery)

Name: Figure Away (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery)
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ISBN: 9780881502060

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286 pages1991Foul Play PrISBN 9780881502060

Mystery Crime Fiction Thriller

About this book

From Foul Play Press: Flocks of tourists were arriving in Billingsgate for Old Home Week, unaware that odd things had been happening: fires in Town Hall, stolen keys, and shots in the dark. Before it all gets further out of hand, Asey Mayo is called in to save the day, hardly expecting to confront a corpse down in sinister Hell Hollow.

Publication Details

Publisher: Foul Play Pr
Published: 1991
Pages: 286
ISBN: 9780881502060
Language: en

About Unknown Author

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 - 1939). *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. - Bio by The Countryman Press