- Deathblow Hill
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Deathblow Hill Author(s) Phoebe Atwood Taylor Country USA Language English Series Asey Mayo Genre(s) Mystery, Detective novel Publisher (USA) Publication date 1935 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 285 pp (Foul Play Press paperback edition, 1993) ISBN 0-88150-262-6 (Foul Play Press paperback edition, 1993) OCLC Number 54256714 Preceded by Sandbar Sinister (1934) Followed by The Tinkling Symbol (1935) Deathblow Hill, first published in 1935, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.
Plot summary
Between two neighboring Cape Cod houses there is a chain link fence topped with barbed wire to signify the feud between the two halves of the Howes family. The disappearance of the fortune left by ancestor Bellamy Howes has divided Suzanne from her eccentric relative Simon. The fence has kept them apart, but now there are mysterious things happening at both homes -- unexplained ransackings, unexplained prowlers wearing yellow handkerchiefs, and two near stranglings. When wealthy Benjamin Carson is strangled and left on the doorstep of one of the two houses on Deathblow Hill, Asey Mayo is called in to set to right both little mysteries (such as Bellamy's ships-in-bottles collection) and large mysteries like a tidy murderer.
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) · Deathblow Hill (1935) · The Tinkling Symbol (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 Categories:- 1935 novels
- Novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
- Novels set in Massachusetts
- Mystery novel stubs
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