You Can’t Get There From Here by Pat Cook

Scandal-sheet reporter Arthur Lyman finds himself investigating a local Bed and Breakfast, The Mavis Garner, when an increasing amount of people find themselves unwilling lodgers due to a conveniently placed pothole that leaves their cars down for the count. Follow Lyman through his journey of loss (his job, of course), love (the possible culprit of Pothole Gate), and Shakespeare?