Asey, what is an annulet? This innocent query would soon lead to some not-so-innocent questions. And who could predict that before this was over, Asey would be tricked several times over, decoyed, robbed, and baffled by an elephant?
Phoebe Atwood Taylor (19091976) lived in Boston and Cape Cod for most of her life. She was the author of the Asey Mayo mystery series and, under the pseudonym Alice Tilton, the Leonidas Witherall mystery series. She also wrote under the name Freeman Dana (Murder at the New York World's Fair).