The Crimson Patch

1936 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
0-88150-064-X (Foul Play Press paperback edition, 1986)OCLC14103048Preceded byDeathblow Hill (1935) Followed byOut of Order (1936) 

The Crimson Patch, first published in 1936, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo,[1] the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

Plot summary

Mr. Myles Witherall, retired New Englander, decides on a whim to take an inexpensive tourist bus to the little town of Skaket, and thereby gets involved in the movements of an escaped killer. Meanwhile, a young married couple of artistic antecedents find that Skaket's inhabitants have turned violently against them, just before they find the body of Rosalie Ray, radio personality, dead in her bed, murdered with a whale lance. It takes Asey Mayo's knowledge of Skaket mores, a session of bric-a-brac destruction with wilful ingenue Laurie Lee, and the breaking of a clever alibi before Asey can pinpoint the killer and administer justice personally.

References

  1. ^ GoodReads website, Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery Series
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Mystery novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo volumes
  • The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)
  • Death Lights a Candle (1932)
  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
  • Sandbar Sinister (1934)
  • The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
  • Deathblow Hill (1935)
  • The Crimson Patch (1936)
  • Out of Order (1936)
  • Figure Away (1937)
  • Octagon House (1937)
  • The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
  • Banbury Bog (1938)
  • Spring Harrowing (1939)
  • The Criminal C.O.D. (1940)
  • The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
  • The Perennial Boarder (1941)
  • The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
  • Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
  • Going, Going, Gone (1943)
  • Proof of the Pudding (1943)
  • The Asey Mayo Trio (1946)
  • Punch With Care (1946)
  • Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
Leonidas Witherall novels as "Alice Tilton"
  • Beginning with a Bash (1937)
  • The Cut Direct (1938)
  • Cold Steal (1939)
  • The Left Leg (1940)
  • The Hollow Chest (1941)
  • File For Record (1943)
  • Dead Ernest (1944)
  • The Iron Clew (1947)
As Freeman Dana


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