The Tinkling Symbol

The Tinkling Symbol
First edition
AuthorPhoebe Atwood Taylor
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAsey Mayo
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1935
Publication placeUSA
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages288 pp
OCLC28564135
Dewey Decimal
813/.52 20
LC ClassPS3539.A9635 T56 1993
Preceded bySandbar Sinister (1934) 
Followed byDeathblow Hill (1935) 

The Tinkling Symbol, first published in 1935,[1] is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock".[2] This novel is a whodunnit mystery.

Plot summary

The little Cape Cod town of West Weesit has been rocked by four suicides from the same location, now known as "Suicide Cliff". Kay Truman was the found at the foot of the cliff a month prior. Her father, Dave, had already been depressed because his business had failed and his wife had left him. When a number of witnesses in a neighboring house see him come out of his house and aim a gun at himself, they assume the resulting shot is another suicide. But when it is learned that Dave had in fact been stabbed in the back, Asey Mayo is called to investigate, soon becoming a target for a determined shooter. Meanwhile, he sorts out some local Cape Cod entanglements and learns the meaning of a dying clue left by Dave Truman— "ink"—and what the tinkling bell around the neck of Sully the cat has to do with anything.

References

  1. ^ Taylor, Phoebe Atwood (2023-10-03). The Tinkling Symbol: An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. W.W. Norton. ISBN 9780881502633. Archived from the original on 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
  2. ^ "Taylor, Phoebe Atwood | Encyclopedia.com". 2023-10-03. Archived from the original on 2023-10-03. Retrieved 2023-10-03.
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Mystery novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo volumes
  • The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)
  • Death Lights a Candle (1932)
  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
  • The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
  • Sandbar Sinister (1934)
  • The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
  • Deathblow Hill (1935)
  • The Crimson Patch (1936)
  • Out of Order (1936)
  • Figure Away (1937)
  • Octagon House (1937)
  • The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
  • Banbury Bog (1938)
  • Spring Harrowing (1939)
  • The Criminal C.O.D. (1940)
  • The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
  • The Perennial Boarder (1941)
  • The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
  • Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
  • Going, Going, Gone (1943)
  • Proof of the Pudding (1943)
  • The Asey Mayo Trio (1946)
  • Punch With Care (1946)
  • Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
Leonidas Witherall novels as "Alice Tilton"
As Freeman Dana


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