Sherlock Holmes and the Frightened Golfer

By J M Gregson

London, February 1896.

As Watson welcomes the first hint of spring and tries to cheer up a restless Holmes, there is an urgent knock at the door of 221B Baker Street.  A moment later, a large man bursts into the living quarters of the famous detective.

Alfred Bullimore is a very skilled, but also an extremely frightened, golfer and he brings with him one of the strangest cases ever to be recorded in Dr Watson’s assiduous notes.

There has been an attack upon an elderly member walking his dog at Royal Blackheath Golf Club, and soon this is followed by an attempt at murder, which brings Holmes and Watson swiftly to the scene of the crime at the famous old golf club.

As Bullimore’s successes accumulate in the month before the Open Championship of 1896, the threat to his safety seems ever greater…