Double Eagle

Alan Saxon #2

by Keith Miles

Alan Saxon, pro golfer and amateur sleuth, has hit rock bottom. After a disastrous season on the golf circuit, he is hounded by his bank, harassed by his ex-wife and on the verge of losing his current girlfriend. So when his friend and fellow pro golfer, Zuke Everett, invites him to trade another dreary English winter for a tournament at the posh new Golden Haze Golf Club in sunny California, he leaps at the chance. However, Saxon soon finds himself enmeshed in a tenacious web of violence and intrigue as he attempts to find his friend's killer and free himself from suspicion. Beatings, betrayal and police badgering are par for this, the most treacherous course of Saxon's life. Double Eagle, Miles' second Saxon mystery, with its clever plotting, humor and breathless suspense, will delight readers—whether they golf or not.

Genres: Mystery

224 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

Pseudonyms: Edward Marston, A.E. Marston, Martin Inigo, Conrad Allen, David Garland, Christopher T. Mountjoy

Keith Miles (born 1940) is an English author, who writes under his own name and also historical fiction and mystery novels under the pseudonym Edward Marston. He is known for his mysteries set in the world of Elizabethan theater. He has also written a series of novels based on events in the Domesday Book.

The protagonist of the theater series is Nicholas Bracewell, the bookholder of a leading Elizabethan theater company (in an alternate non-Shakespearean universe).

The latter series' two protagonists are the Norman soldier Ralph Delchard and the former novitiate turned lawyer Gervase Bret, who is half Norman and half Saxon.

His latest series of novels are based in early Victorian period and revolve around the fictional railway detective Inspector Robert Colbeck.

Series:
* City Hospital
* Action Scene
* Alan Saxon
* Merlin Richards

Reviews

[Susan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think I want to read his next book right away.

[Dan Panke · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's rare to find novels written about golf that are crime novels. The Alan Saxon novels are enjoyable.

[Mgilbert · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book is a good read and, I imagine, especially so for someone who golfs, as I don’t. The main character, Alan, is likable and well drawn. After a couple books, one does feel like one knows him. Unfortunately, he is always withholding information from the police and putting himself in danger, without any evidence that he is actually smarter than the police. I am not sure I believe that his anti-police reaction justifies his reluctance to be truthful. Maybe by the 4th or 5th book if there are that many, that he will give up that attitude and cooperate. Or is that the only way he stays ahead of the police, by not telling them all the facts. This is not an astute detective, just a foolish one.

[Sara Aye Moung · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun read especially for golf lovers

[Richard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Merely okay. A decent enough plot, but the dialogue is horrific, particularly the LA cops (as this takes place in California). NO ONE talks (or talked) as Marston has these cops speak. Very off-putting. I'd use a pseudonym, too, if I wrote like this.