Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton: The Cut Direct (1993)

From the Publisher:
"The author was expert in depicting the everyday life of the times... Her comic vision combined with a superb eye for detail enabled her to create tales that are period pieces in the best sense, never dated, but as fresh and full of fun as when they were written." -- Twentieth Century Crime and Mystery Writers

Leonidas Witherall, William Shakespeare's uncanny look-alike, has a penchant for finding himself in odd situations. For example, he knows that something is wrong when he wakes up beneath a parked roadster on a dark street. But he's hardly prepared to wake up again only a few hours later in a strange house, face to face with a corpse. Once again, the hapless scholar is in for some extraordinary adventures that just might exceed the boundaries of his fertile imagination.

PHOEBE ATWOOD TAYLOR (1909-1976) was also the prolific author of the Asey Mayo Cape Cod mysteries and (writing as Freeman Dana) Murder at the New York World's Fair. She lived in suburban Boston during the winters, and invariably spent the summers on the Cape.

A Foul Play Press Book

Phoebe Atwood Taylor writing as Alice Tilton: The Cut Direct. A Leonidas Witherall Mystery. Countryman Press / Foul Play Press, ISBN: 0881502707 (September, 1993), 286 p., $6.00.