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 w...
Octagon House
Octagon House
Synopsis
The citizens of Quanomet are in an uproar after being unflatteringly depicted in a new post office mural. When a beautiful model is found dead in the garage at Octagon House, private investigator Asey Mayo suspects one of the angry townsfolk. The case becomes more complicated when he learns of fifty thousand dollars worth of missing ambergris, multiplying the motives and dangers.
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Octagon HouseHardcover, June
296 pages
W.W. Norton & CompanyISBN: 97899975301415 editions available
