This is the fourth of the Asey Mayo series, published in 1934. Elspeth Adams, middle-aged spinster from Boston, travels to Cape Cod to help her nephew Mark. He is in love with Anne Bradford, and they are both staying with Anne's stepsister, Eve Prence, who owns and runs Prence's Tavern, a famous retreat for writers.
While they are staying there, Eve tells people that she is afraid for her life, that someone wants to kill her, and she suspects Anne, as Anne is her heir. There are a couple of minor incidents that Eve feels proves her contention that someone is after her, but the others feel she is making too much of them. Of course, Eve is then found stabbed to death, and Asey decides that Anne didn't do it, so he has to find the real murderer, with the help of Elspeth and Mark, and in spite of the local police.
I enjoy reading the Asey Mayo stories, and I like the setting of the 1930s, and discovering occasionally some ideas and statements that would be totally politically incorrect in today's society, but were accepted way back then.
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