- Asey Mayo (Fictitious character), Fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths
Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery #7
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and cool.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- cooloverwhelming
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- First published
- 1935
- Pages
- 285
- Publisher
- Norton, W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., Countryman Press
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780881502626
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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, Marg
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