Deathblow Hill is an unusual name for a boarding house. It sits next to a barbed wire topped chain link fence. On the other side of the fence sits the home of the Keiths. Two halves of the Howes family that don’t get along. The whereabouts of Bellamy Howes’ fortune is the key to this friction.

When strange people, wearing yellow handkerchiefs, show up; ransacked houses and attempted murders occur, both sides suspect each other. What really makes things serious is the murdered body of a famous tycoon.

A nice mystery that becomes serious to Asey Mayo upon the death of the tycoon.

Another enjoyable cozy with Asey Mayo as the lead character, set in the 1930s Cape Cod mystery series by Phoebe Atwood Taylor. ( )

1935. Another more or less perfect Asey Mayo mystery. Involves a family feud, a lighthouse tower, and a lost treasure. Doc Cummings is on hand and Asey's cousins Syl and Jennie Mayo. Lots of prowlers and two bodies and a train wreck. ( )

This story involves to neighbors with a bitter property line dispute; one of them, an old rich man, is found strangled and Asey is invoved. ( )

wonderful mysteries - written in th '30s - fun ( )