The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern, first published in 1934 by W. W. Norton & Co., is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo,[1][2] the "Codfish Sherlock".

[citation needed] This novel is a mystery of the type known as a whodunnit.

Eve Prence is the glamorous and publicity-seeking owner of the famous Cape Cod Tavern, and uses her publicity to keep the Tavern filled with famous and/or wealthy guests.

She has a house-full the night she's found at the bottom of the grand staircase, claiming somebody had tried to kill her.

Asey Mayo must work out the meaning of clues like a pair of antique pistols that contain a pair of antique daggers, and what exactly the blind boy on the scene of the crime heard, and a pair of dirty indentations on a windowsill before bringing home the crime to a surprising figure.