Publisher's Synopsis
What had seemed at first to be no more than tasteless horseplay at Royal Blackheath Golf Club is now threatening to escalate into serious violence. Soon this is followed by an attempt at murder, which brings Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson swiftly to the scene of the crime at the famous old golf club. The climax of the case is reached on the last day of the 1896 Open Championship at Muirfield, with the solution as unexpected as it is timely.