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The crimson patch

The crimson patch

by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Asey Mayo (Fictitious character)FictionPrivate investigatorsFiction, mystery & detective, generalAmerican detective and mystery stories
4.0
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Ominous things are taking place in the town of Skaket. A young couple is confronted with the threat of violence by the locals. A nationally wanted killer may be loose on the Cape. America's favorite radio personality, Rosalie Ray, is found dead in her bed, done in with a whale lance. And this is only the beginning of what may be Asey Mayo's wildest adventure yet.

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Asey Mayo (Fictitious character)FictionPrivate investigatorsFiction, mystery & detective, generalAmerican detective and mystery stories

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Setting

Cape CodCape Cod (Mass.)Massachusetts1930s

About the author

Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Phoebe Atwood Taylor

18 May 1909 – 9 January 1976

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 was one of the first mystery writers to give a regional and rural rather than urban focus during the time known as the "golden age" of mystery writing (1918 - 1939). *Gone with the Wind*'s author, Marg…

Author

Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Pages

287

Read time

≈ 7h

Editions

7

Language

English

Publisher

V. Gollancz

ISBN

9789997529770

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