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Country USA Series Asey Mayo Pages 294 Publisher W. W. Norton & Company | 3.8/5 Goodreads Language English Publication date 1934 Originally published 1934 Page count 294 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genres Mystery, Detective fiction Similar The Mystery of the Cape, Deathblow Hill, The Tinkling Symbol, Banbury bog, Out of Order | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sandbar Sinister, first published in 1934, 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.
Plot summary
The picturesque village of East Pochet in Cape Cod is not its usual self when Elizabeth Colton drives into it; the previous evening, a bootlegger dumped two hundred cases of liquor offshore, and the whole town reaped the windfall. At some point during the boozy celebrations, however, a bearded mystery writer ended up dead in the boat house at the Sandbar estate. Asey Mayo must figure out the comings and goings of a number of interested parties before he puts together the meaning of a mysterious fire in the living room and a tube of salve and solves the crime.