[A Hacker Golf Mystery 01] • Death From the Claret Jug

Hacker’s back and the Royal & Ancient will never be the same!

There’s trouble afoot in the Auld Grey Toon when golf writer Hacker and the world of golf

arrive in St. Andrews for the playing of the Open Championship.

Before the tournament begins, a golf official is murdered and dropped into the Bottle Dungeon at St. Andrews Castle.

One prime suspect is a celebrity American resort developer. But there’s a University professor trying to outlaw golf and disrupt the tournament. And shady Russians turn up everywhere--chasing a caddie friend of Hacker and serving cocktails for the Marquis Cheape, who just happens to own the land beneath the Old Course.

Can Hacker solve the mystery before the tournament ends? Will his girlfriend Mary Jane enjoy her first visit to the Home of Golf? Does it rain in Scotland? Can you make bogey on the Road Hole without even trying?

This is the fifth Hacker Golf Mystery by James Y. Bartlett, best-selling author of Death in a Green Jacket and the other Hacker novels. Bartlett is one of the most-published golf writers of his generation. Golfweek called him "the Dick Francis of golf."