A promising archaeological site has been uncovered near a quarry, and the nearby landowner has been more than accommodating with both access and financial support. But the team needs more, and Karen Stannard, Arnold Landon’s boss at the Department of Antiquities & Museums in Morpeth, Northumberland, develops a great idea – apply for a grant from the Lottery. The Morpeth Council is impressed, but instead of giving to the boss to follow through, the council ends up hiring an outside consultant.
The outside consultant is a former journalist, accountant, and general jack-of-all-trades. And he’s known – unfavorably known – to the archaeological team. In fact, he’s known to a lot of people involved, and no one seems to like him. When his body is discovered on a golf course a few days after an archaeology conference, the list of suspects is theoretically more than 200 people long. Even narrowing it down, it’s still a lengthy list.
Roy Lewis
Murder on the Golf Course is the fourteenth Arnold Landon mystery by British writer Roy Lewis (1933-2019). It’s an unusual entry in the series, as Landon doesn’t play an even minor role in the solution of the crime. But then, neither do the investigating police – the solution will happen almost by accident.
Still, it’s a fast-paced, intricate story about local politics, internal bureaucratic politics, and politics within the archaeology community. Lewis knew how to write a smashing good story, filled with interesting characters and underlined by an archeology project. And Landon may seem a mild, unassuming man, but he can be as tenacious and determined when the situation calls for it.
Lewis (1933-2019) was the author of some 60 other mysteries, novels, and short story collections. His Inspector Crow series includes A Lover Too Many, Murder in the Mine, The Woods Murder, Error of Judgment, and Murder for Money, among others. The Eric Ward series, of which The Sedleigh Hall Murder is the first (and originally published as A Certain Blindness in 1981), includes 17 novels. Lewis lived in northern England.
Related:
Murder in the Cottage by Roy Lewis.
Murder Under the Bridge by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Tower by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Church by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Barn by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Manor by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Farmhouse by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Stableyard by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the House by Roy Lewis.
Murder by the Quay by Roy Lewis.
Error in Judgment by Roy Lewis.
Murder at the Folly by Roy Lewis.
Murder in the Field by Roy Lewis.
Murder at Haggburn Hall by Roy Lewis.
Some Monday Readings
Wendell Berry’s New Decade of Sabbath Poems – Shirley Kilpatrick at Current.
5 Things Every Creative Person Should Consider (Inspired by Wendell Berry) – Joshua Heath Scott (video).
When the Horse Has Left the Barn – Brian Miller at Notes from an East Tennessee Farmer.
Colonization, Replaceable Man, and Love of One’s Own – N.S. Lyons at The Upheaval.
Alderman Stairs – Artificial Intelligence, Historical Accuracy and Copyright – A London Inheritance.
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