Sandbar Sinister
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Author | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
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Language | English |
Series | Asey Mayo |
Genre | Mystery, Detective novel |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | 1934 |
Publication place | USA |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 294 |
Preceded by | The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934) |
Followed by | The Tinkling Symbol (1935) |
Sandbar Sinister, first published in 1934, is a detective story by Phoebe Atwood Taylor which features her series detective Asey Mayo,[1] 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.
References
- ^ GoodReads website, Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery Series
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- The Cape Cod Mystery (1931)
- Death Lights a Candle (1932)
- The Mystery of the Cape Cod Players (1933)
- The Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934)
- Sandbar Sinister (1934)
- The Tinkling Symbol (1935)
- Deathblow Hill (1935)
- The Crimson Patch (1936)
- Out of Order (1936)
- Figure Away (1937)
- Octagon House (1937)
- The Annulet of Gilt (1938)
- Banbury Bog (1938)
- Spring Harrowing (1939)
- The Criminal C.O.D. (1940)
- The Deadly Sunshade (1940)
- The Perennial Boarder (1941)
- The Six Iron Spiders (1942)
- Three Plots for Asey Mayo (1942)
- Going, Going, Gone (1943)
- Proof of the Pudding (1943)
- The Asey Mayo Trio (1946)
- Punch With Care (1946)
- Diplomatic Corpse (1951)
- Beginning with a Bash (1937)
- The Cut Direct (1938)
- Cold Steal (1939)
- The Left Leg (1940)
- The Hollow Chest (1941)
- File For Record (1943)
- Dead Ernest (1944)
- The Iron Clew (1947)
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