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...
The Deadly Sunshade
The Deadly Sunshade
Synopsis
The bullet sang past Asey Mayo's ear and whacked into the garage door as he went to get his car for the run to the Yacht Club. Asey didn't pause to investigate but sped to the Club to look for Mrs. Newell who had been so anxious to see him. He found her lying on the beach, under a bright umbrella, quite dead. Suspects were many; whoever killed her, plenty of people were worried. Events became even stranger until Asey's suspicions were confirmed and he cracked down on a murderer whose amazing secret none had guessed.
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Edition
The Deadly SunshadeHardcover, 1941
297 pages
Collins The Crime ClubLanguage: English5 editions available