Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Going, Going, Gone (1990)

From the Publisher:
"More detective stories should be like those of Phoebe Atwood Taylor." -- New York Herald Tribune
Ever distrustful of banks, the late John Alden was rumored to have concealed his fortune among his possessions. So when his estate comes up for auction, all of East Weesit turns out. But the unexpected high point of the day proves to be the discovery of the body of Solatia Spry, antique dealer, stuffed in a sea chest. As soon as Asey begins to investigate, he's whacked on the head, bound and gagged. The entire Cape town rapidly succumbs to auction fever.

PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR (1909-1976) lived most of her life in Boston and Cape Cod. In addition to the Asey Mayo series, she wrote a number of Leonidas Witherall mysteries as "Alice Tilton," and Murder at the New York World's Fair as "Freeman Dana."

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: Going, Going, Gone. An Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mystery. Foul Play Press, ISBN: 0881501727 (Sepbember, 1990), 220 p., $5.95.