Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

Name: Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
ISBN: 9781613164921

by Unknown Author

271 pages2024Penzler PublishersISBN 9781613164921

Fiction Mystery

About this book

John "Red" Gilpin, the magician, was good at pulling rabbits out of hats, but he may have had a few other tricks up his sleeve, too. For when he met up with other traveling players on the Cape, someone promptly put a bullet in his head. What was the end for Red was only the beginning for Asey Mayo, here confronted with possibly the oddest array of clues and suspects of his long career.

Publication Details

Publisher: Penzler Publishers
Published: 2024
Pages: 271
ISBN: 9781613164921

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