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Sandbar Sinister

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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

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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.

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