Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Banbury Bog (1987)

From the Publisher:
"Asey Mayo stories are always full of salty flavor with corking characters. More detective stories should be like those of Phoebe Atwood Taylor." -- New York Herald Tribune

East Weesit had been down on hard times until prosperity arrived one foggy day in the form of millionaire baker Phineas Banbury. The townsfolk should have been grateful for his benevolence, but something was wrong. Someone wanted to damage him enough to poison all the tarts he had made for the church benefit. Then someone tried to make Banbury look guilty for the murder of selectman Abner Grove, found drowned on dry land. It was time to call in Asey Mayo.

PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR (1909-1976) was the author of over thirty mysteries featuring Asey Mayo and Leonidas Witherall, William Shakespeare's Boston look-alike.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Banbury Bog. An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. Countryman Press / Foul Play Press, ISBN: 0881500909 (March, 1978), 176 p., $4.95.