Phoebe Atwood Taylor

About The Author

Phoebe Atwood Taylor (1909–1976) was one of the most beloved and most successful mystery authors of the 1930s and 1940s, writing under her own name and two pseudonyms, Freeman Dana and Alice Tilton. The Asey Mayo character, first introduced in The Cape Cod Mystery, went on to star in twenty-four novels in a series informed by the author’s generations-long family history in Cape Cod.

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Books by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Beginning with a Bash

By Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Introduction by Nicholas A. Basbanes

Leonidas Witherall, the sleuth who looks like Shakespeare, must prove a man innocent after he is discovered in a second-hand bookshop beside the murdered body of a local professor in this humorous and fast-paced mystery from the author of the beloved Asey Mayo series.

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