Name: Proof of the Pudding

Author: Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Year: 1945
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Mystery

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9780881501933
088150193X		 The war is over and Asey Mayo has come home to Cape Cod bag and baggage. He arrives to a bake sale going on at his house to raise money to repair destruction wreaked upon the Cape by a recent hurricane. -- Jenny, his cousin-housekeeper, sends him off to wander in the woods dressed in the business suit he was wearing to travel. He finds the body of a well-dressed young woman who turns out to be the daughter of a former enemy. Other people are about, sorting through the debris left by the storm. He chases someone, is chased himself and gets thrown into a muddy swamp. He even becomes the primary murder suspect. Soon he's cleared and free to detect by talking to the characters that people these books, a bitter writer, a love-lorn ex-Wac, a grouchy old lady, and a chubby eleven-year-old girl named Mildred, who all lead to the murder's solution.
This book is part of the "Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery" series. Here are some other books from this series:
"The Perennial Boarder"
First published in 1941
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"Spring Harrowing"
First published in 1939
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"Banbury Bog"
First published in 1938
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"Octagon House"
First published in 1937
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"Figure Away"
First published in 1937
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"Sandbar Sinister"
First published in 1936
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"Out of Order"
First published in 1936
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"The Tinkling Symbol"
First published in 1935
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"The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern"
First published in 1934
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"The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players"
First published in 1933
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"Death Lights a Candle"
First published in 1932
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"The Cape Cod Mystery"
First published in 1931
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The Perennial Boarder by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
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Death Lights a Candle by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Cape Cod Mystery by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
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Spring Harrowing by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Tinkling Symbol by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
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