MURDER IN THE ROUGH
 "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
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