Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Going Going Gone by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Going, Going, Gone
Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Going Going Gone by Phoebe Atwood Taylor Going, Going, Gone. There's been another murder on the Cape, and the keen and salty Asey Mayo is on the trail again. An auction that begins as a treasure hunt ends in murder, and an incredible discovery sends our unlikely detective off on a hunt for a killer. Were there secrets between rival art dealers, Miss Pitkin and Mr. Harmsworth? And where does Quin Sharp, the auctioneer, fit in? Here's Asey Mayo in a classic who-dunnit - as mysterious and amusing as his fans have a come to expect. Genre: Mystery. TAYLOR, Phoebe Atwood. Phoebe Atwood Taylor's parents were both natives of Cape Cod; her father was a physician. Taylor graduated from Barnard College in 1930, published her first detective novel in 1931 and published up to three detective novels a year, every year afterwards for almost 20 years. She wrote between midnight and 3:00 a.m., "after housekeeping all day," usually "beginning three weeks before the deadline for the novel to be delivered to her New York publishers." (Her Leonidas Witherall novels include heart-felt depictions of the harried popular author, besieged by telegrams from his publisher, struggling to meet his deadlines.) Taylor married a prominent Boston surgeon of the same surname and lived in Newton Highlands and then in Weston, suburbs of Boston, always keeping a summer home at Wellfleet on Cape Cod. She died of a heart attack. Taylor's first book, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), features her most famous detective, Asa Alden (Asey) Mayo.
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