The Crimson Patch

The Crimson Patch, first published in 1936, 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.

The Crimson Patch
First edition
AuthorPhoebe Atwood Taylor
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAsey Mayo
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherW.W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1936
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages239 pp (Foul Play Press paperback edition, 1986)
ISBN0-88150-064-X (Foul Play Press paperback edition, 1986)
OCLC14103048
Preceded byDeathblow Hill (1935) 
Followed byOut of Order (1936) 

Plot summary

Mr. Myles Witherall, retired New Englander, decides on a whim to take an inexpensive tourist bus to the little town of Skaket, and thereby gets involved in the movements of an escaped killer. Meanwhile, a young married couple of artistic antecedents find that Skaket's inhabitants have turned violently against them, just before they find the body of Rosalie Ray, radio personality, dead in her bed, murdered with a whale lance. It takes Asey Mayo's knowledge of Skaket mores, a session of bric-a-brac destruction with wilful ingenue Laurie Lee, and the breaking of a clever alibi before Asey can pinpoint the killer and administer justice personally.


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