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Its WWII and Asey Mayo has returned home on a three day holiday from the Porter Machine Tank Plant. The Village of East Asplinnate is all abustle with First-Aid classes, Civil Defense drills and practices, Red Cross activities, war restrictions, some displaced out-of-towners.and local home grown eccentrics. Within an hour of his arrival, Asey discovers a dead body in the buttery of his cottage. Asey calls his friend the local doctor, and the invesigation begins, Dr. Cummings and Asey have initially identified an "iron spider" as the murder weapon, but it turns out there are 6 such spiders floating about the village. Then, a second murder victim is found. It is written in a dialectical language style, and very much reflects the close inner twining of small village lives. Interesting period piece.
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Asey Mayo (Fictitious character), Fiction, Private investigators, Fiction, mystery & detective, women sleuths, Mayo, asey (fictitious character), fiction, Massachusetts, fiction, Cape cod (mass.), fiction, Private investigators, fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, generalPlaces
Cape Cod, Cape Cod (Mass.), MassachusettsTimes
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The six iron spiders: an Asey Mayo Cape Cod mystery
1992, Foul Play Press
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0881502308 9780881502305
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