Bullet Hole

Alan Saxon #1

by Keith Miles

In the world of championship golf, the stakes are high and passions run to match. And never more so than at the British Open Championship, particularly when it is played at Saint Andrews, venerable home of the game.

For Alan Saxon, too long ago a champion and once again in top form, this is a crucial tournament, and he must carefully prepare himself. But his ritual is rudely interrupted by the appearance of a young, pretty golf groupie who starts by demanding a lift and ends up naked and dead in his bed.

She is not the only casualty, and it fast becomes clear that someone wants Saxon out of the open. As the championship builds to its climax, at last Saxon thinks he knows who the killer is--but then he must decide: which hole is the bullet hole?

Genres: Mystery

217 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Pseudonyms: Edward Marston, A.E. Marston, Martin Inigo, Conrad Allen, David Garland, Christopher T. Mountjoy

Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book.

The protagonist of the theater series is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).

The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.

His latest series of novels are based in early Victorian period and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.

Series:
* City Hospital
* Action Scene
* Alan Saxon
* Merlin Richards

Reviews

[Richard]

Alan Saxon plays in the British Open. Murderers try to stop him from winning. Pretty good, by Edward Marston.

[Susan]

I loved it. Kept me on the seat of my pant's. I watched the Scottish Open last weekend.

[Angie]

This " freebie " has been sitting on my Kindle forever ...
It deserves a solid 4.5 stars ! Golf is not my thing , but as a backdrop in the story that really didn't matter . Strong characters and a plot that keeps you turning pages .

[Sara Aye Moung]

Enjoyable read particularly if you like golf

[John Gallagher]

Just OK. Not particularly plausible

[Cat]

Weak plot, motives of protagonist often seem confused and not well thought out.