Word: asey
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...Paradise Hill Bar, Bartender Larry Asey declared, "He's got a damn lot of friends up here." Some of those supporters apparently were calling the sheriff's office with phony tips about seeing Dallas everywhere from Canada to Colorado. The calls fooled no one as the pursuers prepared for a long, dangerous hunt in the sparsely populated region, where there are countless places to hide and plenty of folks willing to harbor a fugitive, even if he is actually as mean and brutal as most of the Old West's false heroes...
...PERENNIAL BOARDER - Phoebe Atwood Taylor - Norton ($2). Olive Beadle, shot in Ye Olde Whale caravansary on Cape Cod, gives Asey Mayo a rare bit of homespun detecting to do. Asey's grammar gets worse as his sleuthing gets better...
...CRIMINAL C.O.D.-Phoebe Atwood Taylor-Norfon ($2). Asey Mayo, mooching around among Cape Cod characters, uses the Quashnet party line and other local antiquities to nail the killer of Henry P. Slocum, rising politician, and his girl. Title-point is an express package delivered to the doctor, containing you-know-what, packed...
...Annulet of Gilt-Phoebe Atwood Taylor-Norton ($2). Wild week end on Cape Cod, involving murder in a rented house, foreign intrigue and mysterious servants, solved by means of the long memory of the salty oldtimer, Asey Mayo...
...Gilpin, lady-charming magician in a summer vaudeville troupe, is shot on a Cape Cod bluff. Asey Mayo, shrewd Yankee with two murder solutions already to his credit, makes much of a strangled skunk, lets the murderer commit suicide...
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