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 24 novels in a series informed by the author’s generations-long family history in Cape Cod.

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American Mystery Classics

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Books by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Sandbar Sinister

By Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Introduction by Dwyer Murphy

When a box of bootleg liquor washes up on the shores of Cape Cod, it brings a whole lot of trouble along with it in this classic case for Asey Mayo, the Cape's answer to Sherlock Holmes.

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