Half the town of East Pochet lay sprawled along Main Street dead drunk...

The bearded stranger lay in the boat house at Sandbar dead...

The not entirely loveable owner of Sandbar had disappeared...

And to confuse the issue thoroughly, the wrong man confessed...

So it was up to the Yankee Sherlock, Asey Mayo, to solve the mystery of the mystery writer's death, and before the mess on Main Street was cleared up, Asey brought the whole gory business to a startling conclusion.