The Feathery Touch of Death at the British Open

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....