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 Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern
The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern
Synopsis
Eve Prence would do anything for publicity, so not everyone believed her when she said someone was trying to kill her. But all doubt vanished when someone put a knife in her. ribs. Eve's famous Cape Cod Tavern was full of guests at the time, so Asey Mayo had plenty of suspects on hand. But this looked like a tough one indeed. There was the matter of a curious pair of antique pistols with daggers hidden between the barrels. There was an all-tooconvenient suspect at the scene with a knife in her hand. And the only witness to the murder was a blind boy.
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod TavernUnknown, 1934
288 pages
W. W. Norton & CompanyLanguage: English5 editions available