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Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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.
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Born 18 May 1909
Died 9 January 1976

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  • Cover of: Beginning with a bash: Loenidas Witherall investigates

    First published in 1937 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: The Cape Cod Mystery: An Asey Mayo Mystery

    First published in 1931 — 8 editions
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  • Cover of: Cold steal : a Leonidas Witherall mystery

    First published in 1939 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: The deadly sunshade: an Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery

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  • Cover of: Octagon house: an Asey Mayo mystery of Cape Cod

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  • Cover of: The six iron spiders: an Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery

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  • Cover of: Figure away: an Asey Mayo mystery

    Cover of edition OL8324471M First published in 1937 — 7 editions
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  • Cover of: Banbury Bog: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery

    First published in 1938 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: File for Record

    First published in 1943 — 6 editions
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    First published in 1940 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The Crimson Patch: an Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery

    First published in 1936 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players

    First published in 1933 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Dead Ernest

    First published in 1944 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The criminal C.O.D.: an Asey Mayo mystery

    First published in 1940 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The Hollow Chest

    First published in 1941 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern: An Asey Mayo Classic

    Cover of edition mysteryofcapecod0000phoe_m0d9 First published in 1930 — 5 editions
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    Cover of edition proofofpudding0000phoe First published in 1945 — 5 editions
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    First published in 1941 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: The Asey Mayo Trio: Three Cape Cod Mysteries

    First published in 1946 — 4 editions
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Born 18 May 1909
Died 9 January 1976

Subjects

Fiction, Asey Mayo (Fictitious character), Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Mayo, asey (fictitious character), fiction, Cape cod (mass.), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Massachusetts, fiction, Private investigators, fiction, mystery & detective fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, hard-boiled, Large type books, Witherall, leonidas (fictitious character), fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Leonidas Witherall (Fictitious character), Leonidas Witherall (fictitious character), fiction, Authors, College teachers, Fiction in English, American detective and mystery stories, Boston (mass.) fiction, College teachers (Fiction), Crimes against, English Short stories

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Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Cape Cod (Mass.), Boston, Boston (Mass.), New York, New York (State)

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Asey Mayo (Fictitious character), Asey (Asa) Mayo

Time

1930s, 1940s, 1937, 1940, World War II

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Alternative names

  • Alice Tilton
  • Freeman Dana
  • Phoebe Atwood Taylor, Freeman Dana
  • pseud for Phoebe Atwood Taylor Alice Tilton

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January 13, 2024 Edited by mheiman merge authors
September 7, 2023 Edited by Сергей Малышев Edited without comment.
September 7, 2023 Edited by Сергей Малышев Added new photo
December 16, 2022 Edited by mheiman merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import