The Feathery Touch of Death at the British Open — John Logue

DOUBLE BOGEY

Barry Vinson could pulverize his tee shots and dazzle with his short game. But when it came to personality, the brilliant young American was strictly a duffer-until someone took him off the course.

Vinson was found in the historic graveyard of Edinburgh castle, a stone's throw from rough, windswept, venerable St. Andrews, site of the British Open. Not only had Vinson been strangled, but an antique golf ball-called a Feathery-had been stuffed in his throat. For golf writer John Morris and his high-spirited companion, Julia Sullivan, it was almost a matter of even par-until a second savage murder is committed.

Now, amid the pomp, circumstance, and cutthroat competition of the Open, Morris and Sullivan are desperately trying to solve a bizarre mystery-one that will take them back through the history of Scotland itself, where golf and bloody murder are all part of the game....