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1937 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor

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Figure Away
First edition
Author	Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Language	English
Series	Asey Mayo
Genre	Mystery, Detective novel
Publisher	W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date	1937
Publication place	United States
Media type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages	222 pp (Pyramid paperback edition, 1967)
OCLC	1387806
Preceded by	Out of Order (1936)
Followed by	Octagon House (1937)

Figure Away, first published in 1937, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo, the "Codfish Sherlock". This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit. In 1939, the novel was serialised by several newspapers as ‘Old Home Week Murder’.

Plot summary

Cape Cod's resident detective Asey Mayo is asked to take a hand with respect to some mysterious disturbances that threaten the success of Billingsgate's "Old Home Week", a local festival mounted to stave off the small town's bankruptcy. The week of homespun celebrations is soon marred by the murder of an antiques dealer and there is no shortage of suspects, both local and "come-from-awayers"; someone has been sabotaging the festival and occasionally taking the place of one of the mannequins on the lawn of the murdered antiques dealer. Asey Mayo finally tracks down the identity of the murderer and learns who's been moving the "figure away".

References

GoodReads website, Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery Series

v t e 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"	Beginning with a Bash (1937) The Cut Direct (1938) Cold Steal (1939) The Left Leg (1940) The Hollow Chest (1941) File For Record (1943) Dead Ernest (1944) The Iron Clew (1947)
As Freeman Dana	Murder at the New York World's Fair (1938)

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