Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Asey Mayo Trio (1990)

From the Publisher:
"Headed for a lazy week at the shore? Pull up a sand dune and tuck into one of Phoebe Atwood Taylor's charming Cape Cod mysteries. These period who-dunnits recall simpler, more carefree times, and sparkle with the Yankee wit and salty idiom of Asey Mayo, a local handyman who knows something about police work and everything about everybody's business." -- Marilyn Stasio, Mystery Alley

The Third Murderer -- On the third occasion of moving the old Snow house, a young woman's body turns up in a Dutch oven.
Murder Rides the Gale -- The new teacher at Merton Hall, posh private girl's school, arrives dead in a carriage.
The Stars Spell Death -- While on vacation, Asey encounters a very dead astronomer in a very up-to-date observatory.

Asey Mayo fans will be delighted to find the codfish Sherlock not once, but thrice perplexed in these incomparable novellas.

Phoebe Atwood Taylor: The Asey Mayo Trio. Three Asey Mayo Cape Cod Mysteries. Woodstock, VT: Countryman Press / Foul Play Press, 1990, ISBN: 0881501719, 250 p., $5.95.