Proof of the Pudding: An Asey Mayo Mystery

by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

Book Overview

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0006AQQIY
• Release Date: January 1945
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not a Holiday Mystery

While the pudding of the title is the plum pudding I associate with Christmas, this book is set in the fall. 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 wrecked 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, even a chubby eleven year old girl named Mildred, who all lead to the murder's solution. Oh, and he also had to contend with a sharp-clawed Siamese named Zanies. Shorter than most Atwood Taylor books (189 pgs), it makes a fun read for an evening's entertainment.