Where Have All the Birdies Gone? (Lee Ofsted, Book 4) - Hardcover

Elkins, Aaron; Elkins, Charlotte

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9780727861320: Where Have All the Birdies Gone? (Lee Ofsted, Book 4)

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ISBN 10: 0727861328 ISBN 13: 9780727861320

Publisher: Severn House, 2004

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If there is one thing the young golfer Lee Ofsted doesn't have on her mind, it is her chances of being selected for the Stewart Cup Tournament { the competition that pits the greatest American golfers, male and female, against their British and European counterparts. Lee is on no one's list of the !'greatest American golfers,"" so it comes as a surprise when the great Roger Finley, captain of the American team, invites her to play. She's on the team, but exhilaration soon gives way to anxiety. Can she deliver? However, as play begins, Lee's worries about making a fool of herself take second place when Roger!&s devoted long-time caddie is found murdered, and Lee herself is the victim of an attempt on her life. It takes all of Lee's nerve and natural talent to see the competition through, to keep out of the gunsights of a resourceful killer, and, in the end, to make sense of a bizarre and paradoxical mystery.

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About the Author:

Aaron Elkins's previous books include ""Skeleton Dance, Loot, Twenty Blue Devils, "" and ""Old Bones, "" which won the Edgar Award for Novel of the Year. He lives with his wife, Charlotte, on Washington's Olympic Peninsula.

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Most of the suspense in too many golf mysteries comes from anticipating the howlers, the on-course inaccuracies committed by writers unfamiliar with the sport. What a pleasure, then, to read the Elkins' Lee Ofsted series and watch two genre veterans work their way around a mystery plot and a golf course without any disasters. Almost. The story of LPGA pro Ofsted's experience at the fictional Stewart Cup (a Ryder Cup-like event in which women and men from the U.S and Europe compete against one another) is handled expertly from the beginning: the golf is spot-on, and the mystery, involving the murder of the U.S. captain's caddy, has a satisfyingly tricky conclusion. If only the Elkins hadn't slipped up on the eighteenth hole of the cup-deciding match. The action is perfectly realistic except for one problem: one of the player's scores is counted wrong. The tight finish isn't really all that tight. But let's be charitable: it's easy to miss a stroke, and that gaffe aside, the Elkins deliver a fine round of golf. Bill Ott
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