title: Murder in the Rough: Original Tales of Bad Shots, Terrible Lies, and Other Deadly Handicaps from Today's Great Writers
author:  Otto Penzler 
description: Too often authors of crime stories rely on bodies buried in bunkers (there's not enough sand) or on wily caddies exposing the pomposities of country-club fat cats (way too easy). Penzler, who has made a cottage industry out of sports-themed mystery anthologies, doesn't totally avoid these hazards, but the original stories he has commissioned for this volume have one big thing going for them: the writers are all top drawer, from Ian Rankin and Ken Bruen, on the hard-boiled side, to Jonathan Gash and William G. Tapply, on the more relaxed, over-easy side. But these stories all have an edge, often using our stereotypical images of golf to help create it. Bruen does it best, in a story that begins, "I hate fuckin' golf," and then proceeds to explain why. Lawrence Block isn't far behind, in "Welcome to the Real World," in which a retired executive, happy to hit balls at Chelsea Piers Driving Range in Manhattan, is forced onto a real course. For golf and crime fans, Penzler's exhaustive bibliography of golf mysteries is almost as much of a treat as the stories. <i>Bill Ott</i><br /><i>Copyright  American Library Association. All rights reserved</i>
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  Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Part IIThe Smoke
  
  Leaving
  
  Spagbol
  
  The Worst Mistake
  
  The Side You Despise
  
  Firestorm
  
  
  Part IIIInto the Fire
  
  Invasion
  
  The Rabbit Pen
  
  In Case of Damage
  
  Run
  
  Amazing
  
  Ruin
  
  Maddy and Az
  
  The Oil Plague
  
  Familiar Sights
  
  Accomplices
  
  Over the Edge
  
  Inside
  
  Rescue
  
  
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  Getaway
  
  Night Alone
  
  Hippocratic Oath
  
  Confessions
  
  Down the River
  
  Author Bio
  
  Uglies
  
  
  COMING SOON FROM SIMON PULSE:
  
  Pretties
  
  Specials
  
  
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  This novel was shaped by a series of e-mail exchanges
  
  between myself and Ted Chiang about his story
  
  “Liking What You See: A Documentary.” His input on
  
  the manuscript was also invaluable.
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Any references to historical events, real
  people, or real locales are used fictitiously. Other names, characters,
  places, and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination, and any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely