The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players
Phoebe Atwood TaylorAsey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock Holmes," investigates the murder of a traveling performer.
When the Cape Cod Players roll into towns along the lower Cape, the locals expect a great show, replete with games, magic, and merriment. Of course, they usually have an audience, too. When Boston widow Victoria Ballard, visiting the Cape to recover from a near-fatal bout with pneumonia, comes upon the troupe near her rural convalescent home, she ascertains that someone has played a nasty trick on the players, sending them to a remote destination in the wild backcountry in search of a paying gig. Sympathetic to the plight of the ragtag group, Vic invites them to stay the night with her, but when day breaks to find the lead magician with a bullet in his head, she realizes the cruel trick that brought the travelers to her home may have been part of a deadly plot—and that she may have been an unwitting participant.Enter Asey Mayo, Cape...
年:
2024
出版商:
Penzler Publishers
語言:
english
文件:
MOBI , 703 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2024