Dead Ball: A Mystery Introducing Angus Straun - Hardcover
When murder interrupts a major golf tournament, Inspector Angus Straun--policeman, best-selling author, and golfer--looks into the matter and finds bizarre behavior at the Royal West Wessex Golf Club and a murderer willing to do in the Inspector
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Cork's first mystery bears the originality, dry wit and suspense typical of the best British thrillers. Angus Straun, police inspector and author, recounts the doings at the Royal West Wessex Golf Club, where he is investigating suspicious acts originating in landscape vandalism but escalating to the murders of Keith Fletcher, feminist April Yonge and others. Since only days remain before a tournament (expected to attract huge crowds and TV coverage) takes place, cunning is required to guard the gathering world-class champions and halt the perpetrators. Luckily, Straun's literary agent and true love, Laurie Wilson, is on hand to help crack the case. This appealing partnership turns in an offbeat, ace performance in Cork's capable hands.
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Despite an invasive British atmosphere, an appealing sports subject, a best-selling author/police inspector, and occasional evidence of a very dry wit, Cork's first mystery falls a bit short. While these trappings provide interest, the lame and intermittent plot does not. Inspector Angus Straun, Maserati driver and lukewarm public employee, interrupts his vacation to help solve damaging disruptions (vandalized greens, exploding golf balls, possible murder) at the Royal West Wessex, country club host of the world-renowned Tamworth Golf Classic. A mixed bag, certainly, but an author worth watching.--
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- PublisherScribner
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0684190443
- ISBN 13 9780684190440
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Softcover, trade paperback format, Uncorrected Advance Proof as printed on front cover, Bound in light blue card-stock like covers, with publishing information printed on front, Condition: New, Unread, Spine Not Broken, slight fading along top cover edge, First American Edition 1989 as stated, First Printing, Full # print line 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 as printed on copyright page, a Charles Scribner's Crime Fiction, "a mystery Introducing Angus Strain, policeman, bestselling author and golfer", "An Inspector Angus Strain Mystery Series" #1 of 4: * 1 - Dead Ball: A Mystery introducing Angus Straun (Mar-1989) 2 - Unnatural Hazard (Jan-1980) 3 - Laid Dead (Apr-1991) 4 - #5 iun Angus Straun series Winter Rules (Feb-1993). Seller Inventory # ABE-1679512161768
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