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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern

Phoebe Atwood Taylor

1930
Massachusetts Mystery & Detective Asey Mayo (Fictitious Character)

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.