Sandbar Sinister

1934 novel by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Sandbar Sinister
First edition
AuthorPhoebe Atwood Taylor
LanguageEnglish
SeriesAsey Mayo
GenreMystery, Detective novel
PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1934
Publication placeUSA
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages294
Preceded byThe Mystery of the Cape Cod Tavern (1934) 
Followed byThe 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

  1. ^ GoodReads website, Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery Series
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Mystery novels by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
Asey Mayo volumes
  • 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)
Leonidas Witherall novels as "Alice Tilton"
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