Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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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, Margaret Mitchell, was a great fan of the Asey Mayo series, and encouraged Taylor to pack the books with Cape Cod detail. In all, she authored 33 books. She died in 1976 at age 67. - Bio by The Countryman Press

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The Cape Cod Mystery
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The Perennial Boarder
Representative edition published 2006
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The Asey Mayo Trio
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File for Record
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Out of Order
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Beginning with a bash
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Punch with care
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The Cut Direct
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Deathblow hill
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The Tinkling Symbol
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Cold Steal
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The Deadly Sunshade
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The six iron spiders
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Dead Ernest
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The Iron Clew
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Figure Away (Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery)
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Proof of the pudding
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Octagon House
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Going, going, gone
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The Hollow Chest
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The Left Leg
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The criminal C.O.D
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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
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Banbury Bog
Representative edition published 1987
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