By Sunday morning, the rain had washed the blood away. The sun was finally coming out. It was a perfect day for golf, or at least it would have been if the course were open. I could see a couple policemen on the twelfth hole as I drove in -- it's a short par five running right along the entrance road, with a stream cutting across the fairway just in front of the tee.
     The water's just for looks, of course. It's not in play unless you really skull one. With a decent drive, you can roll a fairway wood right down the middle between the two sand traps. Two putts and you've got a birdie. It's one of the easier holes on the golf course, and with the tall marsh plants running down the right side, one of the prettiest, too. At least on the days when there are no dead bodies on it.

Synopsis: 
Edited by Otto Penzler. 15 Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today's Great Writers. Steve's story "Room for a Fourth" joins those by Lawrence Block ("Welcome to the Real World"), H.R.F. Keating ("Miss Unwin Plays by the Rules"), Jonathan Gash (a Lovejoy story, "Death by Golf"), William Tapply ("Unplayable Lies"), Ken Bruen ("Spittin Iron"), Ian Rankin ("Graduation Day"), Laura Lippman ("A Good **** Spoiled" ), Bradford Morrow, John Sandford and others.

Mysterious Press hardcover (June 2006) ISBN: 0892960175
Mysterious Press trade paperback (June 2006) ISBN: 0446697419