Phoebe Atwood Taylor Books in Order

A celebrated novelist is found dead in his Cape Cod summer house after a night of visitors with reasons to hate him. Asey Mayo must sort through conflicting suspicions and local confusion before the weekend is over.

A March snowstorm traps a house party on Cape Cod, cutting the guests off from help. When their host dies of apparent arsenic poisoning, Asey Mayo faces a difficult investigation among people who almost all possess the suspected poison.

Widow Victoria Ballard offers shelter to a traveling troupe deceived into seeking work in a remote Cape Cod location. When its magician is found shot the next morning, Asey Mayo investigates whether their arrival was part of a calculated murder plot.

Discarded cases of bootleg liquor fuel a drunken celebration among Cape Cod townspeople. When two bodies turn up afterward, Asey Mayo must investigate the deaths amid the confusion left by the community’s unexpected supply of alcohol.

Another killing brings Asey Mayo back to work on Cape Cod. The local investigator must navigate the region’s close-knit community and distinctive personalities as he follows the trail through a mystery rooted in New England life.

A barbed-wire fence divides two feuding branches of a Cape Cod family, each suspicious about a missing inheritance. The boarding house at Deathblow Hill stands on one side of a quarrel kept alive by an ancestor’s vanished fortune.

After several women are found dead below a Cape Cod cliff, witnesses believe a bereaved father has shot himself. Evidence of a fatal stabbing brings Asey Mayo into the case, where a determined gunman soon threatens the investigator himself.

A wealthy friend’s expensive wager brings Asey Mayo back from Jamaica into a New England blizzard. What begins as a challenge to decipher an aunt’s grocery order draws the investigator into a puzzle with serious consequences.

A popular radio personality, Rosalie Ray, is found murdered with a whale lance. Asey Mayo investigates the unusual killing, bringing his knowledge of Cape Cod and its people to the search for her attacker.

Visitors gathering in Billingsgate for Old Home Week know little of the fires, stolen keys, and mysterious gunshots unsettling the town. Called in to restore order, Asey Mayo instead discovers a corpse in Hell Hollow.

An unflattering portrait of Quanomet’s residents is unveiled at the town’s new post office, bringing murder and mayhem in its wake. Asey Mayo is called in to investigate the trouble surrounding the controversial painting.

An attempt to discredit a millionaire banker brings Asey Mayo into another Cape Cod investigation. He must discover who is behind the campaign and why the wealthy man has become its target.

A seemingly innocent question about an annulet draws Asey Mayo into a baffling Cape Cod case. Repeatedly misled and robbed, the local investigator must navigate deceptive clues and even an elephant while trying to make sense of the mystery.

Collector Bart Paget is found clawed to death in his library as a neighbor disappears and her wild cats escape. With panic spreading through Quanomet, Asey Mayo must determine what links the death, the missing woman, and the animals.

A frightened woman runs into the path of Asey Mayo’s new car after apparently discovering a corpse. When the body disappears from an old salt loft, he must unravel disturbing developments in an otherwise quiet Cape Cod township.

Lucia Newell is murdered before she can speak with Asey Mayo, leaving the investigator to uncover what she wanted to tell him. The case becomes increasingly personal when someone also begins trying to kill Mayo himself.

Asey Mayo encounters a woman hurrying through a hailstorm, then finds her apparently dead at the Whale Inn. When the body disappears and the woman seems to return alive, he must establish what has happened to its long-standing boarder.

On leave from wartime factory work, Asey Mayo finds a murder victim in the buttery of his Cape Cod home. His investigation unfolds amid rationing, civil-defense preparations, and the suspicions affecting a community living through the war.

Three shorter mysteries take Asey Mayo from an eccentric collector’s estate to a troubled trailer journey and Boston’s Public Garden. Wooden figures, a body in a trailer, and a photographer’s shooting provide separate challenges for the Cape Cod investigator.

An auction that begins like a treasure hunt ends in murder, sending Asey Mayo after a killer. Rival art dealers, an auctioneer, and a startling discovery complicate his search for the truth behind the Cape Cod crime.

Returning to hurricane-damaged Cape Cod, Asey Mayo discovers the murdered daughter of an old enemy. When his own lobster-pot buoy is identified as the weapon, he has only hours to solve the case and clear himself.

Asey Mayo tackles a Cape Cod murder involving a private narrow-gauge railroad, its antique Pullman carriage, and an assortment of local residents and visitors. Confusion over the corpse adds to a case crowded with unusual clues and competing interests.

Asey Mayo confronts three separate investigations in Murder Rides the Gale, The Stars Spell Death, and The Third Murderer. These novellas return the Cape Cod investigator to a landscape of local characters, unexpected deaths, and puzzling crimes.

Asey Mayo discovers a woman’s body in a storm-lashed cemetery with an apparently obvious suspect standing over it. Distrusting the neat explanation, he follows clues that point elsewhere and turn a seemingly simple killing into a much more complicated investigation.

Escaping her troublesome relatives, Daisy Tower boards a luxurious private train and discovers a body among its elegant amenities. Her search for the killer carries her into the excitement and confusion surrounding the New York World’s Fair.