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The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

exurbanis's review against another edition

2.0

This book, published in 1934 is only the second P.A. Taylor I’ve read (the other was the debut in the series). We meet a different middle-aged spinster narrator who stumbles into a murder and happens to have handyman Asey Mayo at hand. This is a closed room mystery in that the culprit has to be one of the Tavern’s (aka Inn) guests. Or does it? There are a lot of comings and goings and secret passages for a house under police observation. It’s that that weakens the enjoyability of this mystery. I can suspend my disbelief only so far.

Read this if: you’re a fan of this series, or of tart New England ways. 2½ stars