Sandbar Sinister
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Sandbar Sinister | |
Author | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
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Country | USA |
Language | English |
Series | Asey Mayo |
Genre(s) | Mystery, Detective novel |
Publisher | (USA) |
Publication date | 1934 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 300 pp (Pyramid T2529 paperback edition, 1971) |
Preceded by | The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934) |
Followed by | Deathblow Hill (1935) |
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.
[edit] 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.