The Asey Mayo Series in order of Publication:

1. The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)
2. Death Lights a Candle (1932)
3. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
4. The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
5. Sandbar Sinister (1934)
6. Deathblow Hill (1935)
7. The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
8. The Crimson Patch (1936)
9. Out of Order (1936)
10. Figure Away (1937)
11. Octagon House (1937)
12. The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
13. Banbury Bog (1938)
14. Sprig Harrowing (1939)
15. The Criminal C.O.D. (1940)
16. The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
17. The Perennial Boarder (1941)
18. The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
19. Going, Going, Gone (1943)
20. Proof of the Pudding (1945)
21. Punch with Care (1946)
22. Diplomatic Corpse (1951)

 Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Phoebe Atwood Taylor, was born in 1909 in Boston, Massachusetts, the first member of her family to be born off Cape Cod in more than 300 years. Upon graduating from Manhattan's Barnard College, she moved to Weston, Massachusetts to pen her her first work, The Cape Cod Mystery (1931), which was published when she was 22. The book was written while Taylor was caring for her invalid aunt, Alice Tilton (the source of one of her two publishing pseudonyms, the other being Freeman Dana). Taylor was one of the first mystery writers to give a regional and rural rather than urban focus during the time known as the "golden age" of mystery writing (1918 - 1939). Gone With the Wind's author, Margaret Mitchell, was a great fan of the Asey Mayo series, and encouraged Taylor to pack the books with Cape Cod detail. The author of 33 books, Taylor died in 1976 at the age of 67.