num_pages: 189
description: The war is over and Asey Mayo has come home to Cape Cod bag and baggage. He arrives to a bake sale going on at his house to raise money to repair destruction wreaked upon the Cape by a recent hurricane.  Jenny his cousin-housekeeper sends him off to wander in the woods dressed in the business suit he was wearing to travel. He finds the body of a well-dressed young woman who turns out to be the daughter of a former enemy. Other people are about sorting through the debris left by the storm. He chases someone is chased himself and gets thrown into a muddy swamp. He even becomes the primary murder suspect. Soon he's cleared and free to detect by talking to the characters that people these books a bitter writer a love-lorn ex-Wac a grouchy old lady and a chubby eleven-year-old girl named Mildred who all lead to the murder's solution.
language: English
title: Proof of the Pudding
publisher: Foul Play Press