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Asey Mayo fans, and newcomers, will have much to discover in Death Lights a Candle, with its special New England flavor and Cape Cod characters. As Marilyn Stasio, columnist for the New York Times writes, "Taylor's droll period whodunits are a special treat, thanks to the Codfish Sherlock, Asey Mayo, a salty Cape codger who entertains summer visitors by solving picturesque crimes."

Set within the brooding landscape of Cape Code, these classic who-dunits are sure to please dedicated Phoebe Atwood Taylor fans and newcomer mystery buffs alike. "Asey, what is an annulet?" This innocent query would soon lead to some not-so-innocent questions. And who could predict that before this was over, Asey would be tricked several times over, decoyed, robbed, and baffled by an elephant?

Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

Back by popular demand for the first time in years, The Countryman Press is pleased to reissue four Cape Cod mysteries featuring the witty and salty Asey Mayo, "A local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business" (Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley).

There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

The best selling novelist was dead in the summer house.The millionaire was in the pillory in the town square.The village idiot was guarding him with a twenty-foot bullwhip.The bridge champion was under arrest for stealing his own car.The doctor was trying to get everyone in sight jailed for murder.Things were in an unholy mess on Cape Cod -- and Asey Maye had only one weekend to clear it up!

A delightfully funny mystery set in New England.

There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again.

The mysterious arrival and subsequent disappearance of a package sets Leonidas off on a furious chase around Dalton, where he is only briefly interrupted by the discovery of the corpse of banker Fenwick Balderston, who has been bashed over the head with a small bust of William Shakespeare.

"Surely, under whatever pseudonym, Mrs. Taylor is the mystery equivalent of Buster Keaton." -Dilys Winn