The Amateur

Kenny brought his right hand to his head (some witnesses thought he was reaching for his ear, others his cheek), but his upper body was already wobbling like a struck bowling pin before it falls to the floor at the end of the lane. The detective pressed his tongue into his cheek, digesting this. That was also the day the police searched Harry Fallows’s place and the Tallmadge Country Club, especially the pro shop, the sheds with the mowers and maintenance equipment, and the locker rooms. But golfers aren’t supposed to be swashbucklers, that’s not the etiquette, and it especially wasn’t the case in the Mesozoic era of the mid- to late 1970s.