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Most of the anticipation excessively a lot of golf mysteries comes derive pleasure hopeful the howlers, the on-course inaccuracies fanatical by writers alien plus the sport. What a pleasure, then, to peruse the Elkins’ Lee Ofsted episodes as well as behold two genre veterans duty their techniques almost a riddle design plus a golf access without any disasters. Almost. The chronicle of LPGA pro Ofsted’s skill at the absent Stewart Cup (a Ryder Cup-like incident inside which opposite sex in addition to people at large like the U.S as well as Europe compete opposed to only another) is restrained expertly fancy the beginning: the golf is spot-on, along with the mystery, related to the murder of the U.S. captain’s caddy, has a satisfyingly tricky conclusion. If barely the Elkins hadn’t dropped unsleeping on the eighteenth cavity of the cup-deciding match. The performance is literally credible excluding since single problem: lone of the player’s scores is counted wrong. The tight finalize isn’t in truth the whole thing that tight. But let’s troth charitable: it’s simple to pass over a stroke, in addition to that gaffe aside, the Elkins deliver a all right round of golf. Bill Ott
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About the Author
Aaron Elkins’s sooner than books carries with it “Skeleton Dance, Loot, Twenty Blue Devils, ” as well as “Old Bones, ” which won the Edgar Award given that Novel of the Year. He lives along furthermore his wife, Charlotte, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula.
If there is single fixation the immature golfer Lee Ofsted doesn’t undergo on her mind, it is her lucks of personality selected for the reason that the Stewart Cup Tournament { the tourney that pits the most outstanding American golfers, human with female, hostile their British along with European counterparts. Lee is on no one’s listing of the !’greatest American golfers,” hence it comes since a stun as the colossal Roger Finley, captain of the American team, invites her to play. She’s on the team, on the other hand excitement rapidly offers systems to anxiety. Can she deliver? However, given that manipulate begins, Lee’s doubts almost earning a fool of herself seize jiffy spot whilst Roger!&s faithful long-time caddie is discovered murdered, in addition to Lee herself is the victim of an struggle on her life. It gets rid of the whole thing of Lee’s bravery plus whole flair to envisage the sport through, to stock out of the gunsights of a resourceful killer, and, the end, to variety good judgment of a peculiar furthermore paradoxical mystery.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #1091937 Books
- Published on: 2004-12-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Hardcover
- 256 pages
Reviews
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The latest and best of the Lee Ofsted series
By Jean Erickson
I have greatly enjoyed Aaron and Charlotte Elkins series of golf mysteries featuring Lee Ofsted, but this one was the best so far. The characterizations have deepened and become even more believable. The plot displayed heightened complexity and, as always, the reader is drawn into an interesting and emotionally satisfying story. With so many mystery writers succumbing to the formulaic approach, it is a great pleasure to read the work of a storyteller. Not that it reaches “great novel” status – it wasn’t intended to! But it does offer an engaging and enjoyable mystery for the intelligent reader.
As for the monomaniac reviewer who dinged the book for a one-stroke golf “error,” may your birdies be gone forever! Get a life. For the rest of us who care more about the overall quality of a book than in self-important nit-picking, this book delivers a hole in one!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Non-Golfers do not beware but read and enjoy
By drkhimxz
The talented Elkins family produced a series of books starring a very junior professional golfer. This is a most entertaining and congenial entry. I doubt if anyone is less informed than I or less interested in golf as a participant or viewer; nevertheless I never felt myself an outsider. The book is written for anyone who can read, golfers welcome.
That reminds me!
In fact, one need not know how to read, since it is a recent book whose publisher did not restrain robotic reading on the Kindle. Robotic reading does not achieve the dramatic effects produced by the trained actors who, so often, magnify the impact of the prose they are reading. The male robotic voice on Kindle (there is also a female one which can be chosen) is understandable and, in general, creates a straightforward reading. It does take time, however, for the average person with no previous experience to develop the mind-set that allows one instantaneously to translate the mechanical reproduction into an acceptable text. I imagine that Amazon’s electronics consultants (or staff) can easily tweak the process so as to produce better pronunciation of common words and better recognition of sentence modifiers. I have been pretty well satisfied with the kindle on this score.
My own enjoyment of the book centered on an appealing central character, the lady golfer, and the straightforward character of the text which does not linger lovingly on intricate details of no interest. So for a quick, easily read, light detective story, I can commend this book to you.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Review of Kindle version
By M. Detlefsen
An entertaining book, marred by some formatting problems. There are multiple instances of strikeovers from the editing process that have left in the book. There are left-hand margin problems, also. The book was apparently taken from the British version, as it uses single-quotes all the way through (very distracting). It doesn’t look as though anyone proofed this work as an ebook.
This is the fourth (?) volume of the adventures of Lee Olmstead, golf pro. I’ve enjoyed them all. I’m knock off one star for formatting issues that should have been caught.
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