| Sandbar Sinister | |
| Author: | Phoebe Atwood Taylor |
| Country: | USA |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Asey Mayo |
| Genre: | Mystery, Detective novel |
| Publisher: | W. W. Norton & Company |
| Release Date: | 1934 |
| 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.
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.