The Perennial Boarder

Asey Mayo and Cousin Jenny find themselves crossing paths multiple times with a Miss Olive Beadle. In a hail storm, in a phone booth —dead, alive and active, on the porch of the Inn — dead. How can this be?

Asey has his suspicions about the whole thing, but it’s difficult, at best, to get his thoughts lined up when Cousin Jenny is around and voicing her opinions.

One of the questions he’s trying to figure out is if the travelling body is the perennial boarder at the Whale Inn.

Plenty of action and a cast of unusual characters guarantee a fast pace read!

Works by Phoebe Atwood Taylor, written in the 1940s, are still an enjoyable and fun read.

(1941) There's a body in the phone booth at the Whale Inn. Asey must determine which of an eccentric crowd of guests and employees and hangers 'round did it. Cape Cod barn theatre members and WWII coast defense and as in all Asey Mayo books, lots of driving around in Porter roadsters. Cousins Jenny and Syl, but no Bill Porter or Betsy or Prudence Whitsby aka Snoodles. Clams.

Just home from a trip, Asey is shanghaied by his forceful cousin Jennie into delivering a load of clams to an inn where he finds a long-standing boarder dead.