3rd and Long (Charloes Oliver Jones Marthas Vineyard Mystery Book 1)

Martha's Vineyard

It is primarily a place where people go to relax and the island offers a range of tourist accommodation including large hotels such as the Harbor View Hotel and Winnetu Resort, modern boutique hotels like the Nobnocket Boutique Inn as well as traditional bed and breakfasts such as The House, Ashley Inn, Pequot House, Thorncroft Inn and Oak Bluffs Inn.

Many visitors also rent private homes. During the whaling era, wealthy Boston sea captains and merchant traders often created estates on Martha's Vineyard with their trading profits. Today, the Vineyard has become one of the Northeast 's most prominent summering havens, having attracted numerous celebrity regulars. The island now has a year-round population of about 15, people in six towns; in summer, the population increases to , residents, with more than 25, additional short-term visitors coming and going on the ferries during the summer season.

The most crowded weekend is July 4, followed by the late-August weekend of the Agricultural Fair. In general, the summer season runs from June through Labor Day weekend, coinciding with the months most American children are not in school. In , the two islands of Martha's Vineyard and Chappaquiddick Island were included in a new American Viticultural Area designation for wine appellation of origin specification: Wines produced from grapes grown on the two islands can be sold with labels that carry the Martha's Vineyard AVA designation. Martha's Vineyard was the home to the winemaker Chicama Vineyards in West Tisbury, though it closed after 37 years on August 10, Its relatively small year-round population has led to a very activist citizenry who are highly involved in the island's day-to-day activities.

Tourism, over-development, politics, and environmentalism are of keen interest to the community. Keeping the balance between the much needed tourist economy and the ecology and wildlife of the island is of paramount importance to residents. In contrast to the seasonal influx of wealthy visitors, Dukes County remains one of the poorest in the state. Residents have established resources to balance the contradictions and stresses that can arise in these circumstances, notably the Martha's Vineyard Commission [68] and Martha's Vineyard Community Services, [69] founded by the late Dr.

Milton Mazer, author of People and Predicaments: Of Life and Distress on Martha's Vineyard. The majority of the Vineyard's residents during the summer are well-established seasonal residents from up and down the Northeast coast of the United States. While many of these summer residents come from all over the United States and abroad, the island tends to be a destination for those within close proximity. Many communities around the island tend to have deep family roots in the island that have matured over the years to create hamlets of good friends and neighbors.

Nevertheless, many visitors are summer renters and weekenders, for whom the island is simply a "home away from home". Many high-profile residents, movie stars, politicians, writers, and artists contribute to fundraisers and benefits that raise awareness of the fragile ecosystem of the Vineyard and support community organizations and services. The largest of these is the annual Possible Dreams Auction.

Historian and author David McCullough is also an island resident, as is author Susan Branch and the young-adult books authors: Various writers have been inspired by the island—including the mystery writer Philip R. Craig who set several novels on the island. McCormack, has written many poems about the island. Since the Australian born author Geraldine Brooks , writer of the Pulitzer Prize winning novel [72] March , has lived there with her husband, Tony Horwitz , himself a Pulitzer Prize winner and successful novelist, and their two sons. Other well-known celebrities who live on or have regularly visited the island: Mike Wallace of 60 Minutes was a summer resident of Martha's Vineyard.

Late anchorman Walter Cronkite was a prominent summer resident as well. Luers and Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Despite popular perceptions of the Vineyard as "Hollywood East", the island is very low-key and quiet; celebrities go to the Vineyard to enjoy the atmosphere, and not to be seen. Locals tend to be protective of celebrity privacy, though recent coverage of celebrity sightings most notably in the two local newspapers on the Island has begun to erode that respect for privacy through more frequent reporting on celebrity sightings and famous visitors.

Many of the country's most affluent African-American families have enjoyed a century-old tradition of summering on the island. Concentrated primarily in and around the town of Oak Bluffs, and the East Chop area, these families have historically represented the black elite from Boston; Washington, D. Today, affluent families from around the country have taken to the Vineyard, and the community is known as a popular summer destination for judges, physicians, business executives, surgeons, attorneys, writers, politicians, and professors.

The historic presence of African-American residents in Oak Bluffs resulted in its Town Beach being pejoratively called "The Inkwell", a nickname which was reappropriated as an emblem of pride. This annual event draws attendees from all across the world. Since the 19th century, the island has had a sizable community of Portuguese-Americans , concentrated primarily in the three down-Island towns of Oak Bluffs, Tisbury, and Edgartown; they have traditionally worked alongside other island residents in whaling and fishing.

The island's permanent residents were profiled in a London Telegraph article showing "the dark side of Martha's Vineyard". In the same month an article titled "Edgartown's Darker Side" appeared in the Boston Globe detailing the extremely poor working conditions suffered by Irish and Serbian students in a newly built private members club in Edgartown. The year-round working population of Martha's Vineyard earns 30 percent less on average than other residents of the state while keeping up with a cost of living that is 60 percent higher than average.

With reception methods powerful enough, it is also possible to receive Boston TV stations, along with Providence stations, over-the-air. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. For other uses, see Martha's Vineyard disambiguation. This section is written like a personal reflection, personal essay, or argumentative essay that states a Wikipedia editor's personal feelings or presents an original argument about a topic. Please help improve it by rewriting it in an encyclopedic style. March Learn how and when to remove this template message. James' Church now St. Edmundsbury Cathedral , Bury St.

Mary's Church and the Cathedral.

Upcoming Events

Retrieved April 3, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language. Retrieved August 12, Retrieved January 18, Archived from the original PDF on March 6, Retrieved July 20, A People's History of the United States. Names on the Land: Archived from the original on April 16, The History of Martha's Vineyard. Published by George H. Boston , Volume I, p. Names on the Land. Boston , p. Bench and Bar of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Volume 2. Contemporaneous writings from Thaxter describe his increasing affinity for the Native Americans and their customs. After King Philip's War. Annals of the American Unitarian Pulpit.

Spooks: Books for Boys by Robert Holland

Thaxter was wounded at the Battle of Bunker Hill. Archived from the original on July 14, Retrieved September 10, Retrieved September 9, Seroprevalence and Occupational Risk". Retrieved April 23, The New York Times. Retrieved January 26, Everyone Here Spoke Sign Language: Hereditary Deafness on Martha's Vineyard. Retrieved October 21, The people of the Eye: Deaf Ethnicity and Ancestry. Is disability just a construct? Retrieved August 4, A Journey into the World of the Deaf.

Berkeley and Los Angeles, California: University of California Press. Western Regional Climate Center. Retrieved February 22, The Martha's Vineyard Times". Archived from the original on February 25, Race, property, and the power of place. The Wall Street Journal. Archived from the original on May 10, Retrieved August 11, Retrieved February 3, Retrieved September 12, Retrieved August 21, Municipalities not listed have a town meeting form of government see all municipalities.

An Adam McCleet Mystery An exploding golf ball puts one of the heirs to a will six feet under par. The death during a tournament is a stroke of evil genius that leaves just six people to share the estate. Ex-Marine, ex-cop, and still-struggling sculptor McCleet reluctantly investigates. Judy Price, chafing at the antiquated rules of her country club in suburban Connecticut, finds an unexpected ally in Claire Cox, America's foremost feminist, who has broken the Club's iron-clad rule against admitting single women.

There are lots of things about The Oaks Claire wants to change -- until she's found dead in a sand trap on the golf course -- bludgeoned with the golf pro's pitching wedge. When ruggedly handsome local detective Tom Cunningham asks Judy to secretly investigate, she finds herself changing from a conventional wife into a daring woman. An Arly Hanks Mystery Murder at a small-town charity golf tournament. The 5th in the Joe Sixsmith series. This time the PI untangles a conspiracy at the Royal Hoo Golf Course, going undercover to investigate an accusation of cheating against a leading member -- despite Sixsmith's not playing golf and being the wrong colour for membership.

Jeff Allen is a murderer extraordinaire and specialist in wife-killing; he provides a service for several husbands in this inventive and suspenseful story of a professional murderer. Detective Chief Inspector Sidney Walsh is summoned to investigate when the body of a notorious womaniser is found in a bunker on the Hasling Abbey golf course. Book 4 in the Sidney Walsh mystery series, following Murder Benign. The central character is Bobby Appleby, Sir John's son, who finds a corpse in the bunker near the first hole on a golf course.

He recognises the body of the elderly man without a finger as that of one of his prep school teachers from years back. Bobby goes to call the police, leaving a pretty woman, who has apparently been taking a walk, to watch the body. However, when he returns with the police, the body has gone, the bunker has been raked back to a pristine condition, and the woman has disappeared. Cassie battles her way through the sectional Qualifying School in pursuit of her life's dream -- a position on the Ladies' Professional Golf Association Tour.

Along the way, she stumbles across illegal equipment and repressed memories, and begins to understand that competition can be murder. Read the first chapter. A Buried Lie Putt to Death Fairway to Heaven Cassie, playing in the tri-tour team golf tournament at legendary Pinehurst, North Carolina, has agreed to participate in her friend's wedding. When the bride's father disappears, not even her suddenly stellar swing can lift Cassie's spirits. Cassie has qualified for the US Women's Open, but someone is sending her sinister emails. Introduces Chief Inspector St.

A secret computer project worth millions of dollars. A badly charred body amid the debris. What final clue awaits the Inspector at St.

• Get A Copy.
• Full text of "The history of Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, Massachusetts".
• Honor Bound.

The Case of the Dying Foursome A tale of murder, witchcraft and golf. A Bob Skinner Mystery When the decomposed body of a young woman is found on a golf course, laid out in a familiar way, Detective Chief Constable Bob Skinner and his men wonder if there's a serial killer afoot. The Golf Club Murder Mystery, action story, romance, in cozy fashion.

The first of two murders is committed on the course, during a round of golf, in an unusual way. Satirical mystery novel centering on Great Events, a service that creates the dream of a lifetime for an ailing loved one, and then arranges for a graceful exit of this life in painless style. The book opens with the protagonist arranging a St.

Andrews golfing exit for her alcoholic father. Features Dan Kardon, Boston attorney. Kardon's law partner and love Jenny Crane convinces Dan to represent Jerome Mann and Jerome's famous athlete cousin, Daryl, who want to open a first-class golf course and adjacent summer camp for disadvantaged youth. Then the cousins' original attorney turns up murdered, his office ransacked. Threats and bad luck plague Jerome and Daryl, but nothing shakes their determination to see the project through, until Jerome is also murdered and Daryl is the prime suspect. Inspector Ganesh Ghote golf mystery, set in the Indian hill town of Ootacamund.

Juvenile Nancy tries to find out who is blackmailing a young female golf pro, making her drop out of the tournament, and what a red jeweled spider neckalace has to do with it. A golfing detective is assigned to protect a Crosby Pro-Am player. Not many golfing scenes but has golfing venue.

A group of golfers discovers the dead body of the local atheist below a railway viaduct. Golf Murder' in Mercury Mystery , Jan An Anna Peters Mystery. Anna Peters and her new husband Harry Radford are in St. Soon after they arrive in the famous old resort, golf, and university town, one of Anna's former clients asks her to investigate some minor vandalism at the Old Course.

In doing so, she runs into three alumni of an college in her hometown in America.

Topics Mentioning This Author

When one alum turns up dead and another is threatened, Anna finds her honeymoon turning into a full time and dangerous job. In the resort town of Bend, Oregon, Andy Harris is mired in a brutal slump and panicked about the upcoming club championship, when he's pitted against a questionable friend who employs an array of gamesmanship to disrupt him when they play.

Four hundred miles away, Reno Homicide Detective Warren Sutter, ordered to mold a naive rookie into a competent detective, gets a call from a good friend whose son has disappeared. Sutter soon suspects a homicide when the investigation leads to a crooked casino owner, but they need more evidence. When the victim's father learns this, he threatens to bring in someone who can get the job done.

A few days later, a nameless stranger begins tailing the casino owner, confirming the father's threat. As the Reno detectives build a case for murder, the events there spill over to Bend, pulling golfer Andy into a dangerous world of intrigue that might just hold the solution to his slump. Morris is a veteran Associated Press sports reporter; Julia Sullivan is his long-term companion. Murder is a college football-focused book in the series. Follow the Leader Novel of suspense at the U. Murder on the Links John Morris just wants to enjoy the golf, the golfers, and the elegant social swirl of the Masters.

But a dead publishing mogul is making that difficult and soon Morris has another death on his hands. Now Morris himself must find out who is on a killing spree at Augusta, before the champion's green jacket comes up the color of blood. The Feathery Touch of Death: At the British Open Murder on the links of the British Open at St. A Rain Of Death When a corporate tycoon drops dead from cyanide poisoning at the Bing Crosby Pro-Am tournament in the Lodge at Pebble Beach, Morris and Sullivan find a collision of ambition, talent, and greed that reaches from the golden days of Hollywood to the windswept Monterey Peninsula.

On a Par With Murder With his skill, grace, and innocence, young golfing phenom Buddy Martin even won over the cynical press corps. And with legions of fans following his every move, Buddy Martin was headed for the promised land: Open on Long Island's famous Shinnecock Hills golf course. But somewhere between the fairways and the sea, tragedy would strike Buddy Martin and the one person who really knew him.

K, lives in Kent Dead Centre Pretty young university students Rose and Poppy Matheson are keen golfers. But one night Poppy is attacked on the footpath near the golf course and her sister, following behind, mistakenly kills the attacker in trying to rescue her twin. The girls cover up the crime by making it look like a car accident but are overheard by another golf club member, Betty Russell, who wants to go to the police. Unfortunately her husband dissuades her and starts blackmailing the girls instead. As Inspector Govern and Sergeant Beck try to disprove the car accident theory, first Betty, then her husband Barry also disappear.

Meanwhile Rose's boyfriend John cannot understand why her manner towards him has changed. It is not until after the discovery of two more dead bodies that all can be resolved. Golfing mystery set on the Old Course at St. Top pro golfer acts to thwart a blackmail scheme in this second book from the Edgar Award winning author of Decoy. Not really a mystery, more a ghost story. Set on fictitious St. Magnus links in Scotland, based on the Old Course at St. Jacky Gore, an English gentleman, challenges crack golfer Jim Lindsay to a game for the chance to propose marriage to Mrs.

Gunter, a beautiful American millionairess. Although Gore alleges to be a sportsman, he has never golfed and has a week to learn how. To prepare for the match, Gore secretly hires a coach and transforms his hotel room into a golf studio, outfitted with turf, a moveable hillock, a bunker, and specially padded walls to absorb drives.

Gore is set to win or lose like a gentleman when the revengeful ghost of a Scottish cardinal with some odd-shaped clubs materializes, adding an otherworldly twist to the story. A meeting between Washington D. An Andrew Broom Mystery Indiana attorney Andrew Broom investigates the murder of industrialist Edar Bissonet on the 7th green. One early morning during spring break, detectives Phil Knight and Jimmy Stewart are enjoying a golf game at the University of Notre Dame when they find a man apparently suffering a heart attack on the green; he dies at the hospital and an autopsy suggests that he was poisoned with deadly nightshade.

A Detective Inspector Carol Ashton mystery. Loaded with brains, style and megabucks, Australian lesbian fashion magnate Gussie Whitlew is used to getting everything she wants. And what she wants is the finest food, the fastest cars, and the most fabulous women. This time her bait is Whitlew Challenge, an exclusive golf tournament carefully designed to lure the world's top female athletes to her private clubhouse.

Also as Out of the Blue. Each set in a different locale. Saxon Scottish is retired golf champion. Alan Saxon's preparations for the British Open Championship are rudely interrupted by the appearance of a golf groupie who ends up naked and dead in his bed. A Golfing Mystery Two-faced treachery and corruption on the international golf circuit. Set in California's San Fernando Valley. Golfing mystery set in Australia. Golfing mystery set in Japan. Stone Dead , under the pseudonym Martin Inigo: Mystery set during the Ryder Cup.

After a ten year gap, Keith Miles returns to the world of golf with a mystery set in Bermuda. Saxon, arriving in Honolulu to act as best man in his friend Donald Dukelow's wedding, unexpectedly finds the pre-wedding festivities shattered by murder when Dukelow is killed, and launching his own investigation, Saxon soon finds himself the target of two rival killers. A psychotic serial killer is stalking some of the more famous golfing venues, including the Masters, the Hilton Head tournament, and Pinehurst, North Carolina, host of this year's U. Veteran golf photographer Nick Oliver gets involved.

Subplot concerns Internet sports gambling. A Henry Tibbett mystery. A murder of mistaken identity at the Augusta National Golf Club during the Masters sets the pace for this fast-moving thriller. Also set in Lima, Peru. Gary Irvine is a horrible golfer with a cheating wife. One day, he hits an absolutely perfect shot, while at the same time he's struck in the head with a golf ball. When he wakes up from a coma, he has the perfect swing and a horrible case of Tourette's syndrome.

With his new swing and new game, he rises to the final round of the British Open against the best golfer in the world. Meanwhile, Gary's wife Pauline and her married lover have hatched a plan to help him avoid a ruinously expensive divorce, involving Gary's hapless thug brother, Lee. Their stories converge as the two brothers stumble into uncharted territory, Lee toward murder and Gary teeing it up with his golfing hero.

Set in Ardgirvan, a small town on Scotland's west coast. Made into a silent film, The Vanished Messenger Golf discussed in the first chapter. Michael's Evil Deeds A Series of Stories Two tales of suspense set in the world of professional golf. In 'Golf Twins,' a brutal crime takes place on the grounds of a swank Texas golf club that results in the birth of twin boys, who are raised far apart buy meet again as young men on a golf course.

Both are professional golfers in the process of making their names on the tournament circuit. Recognizing immediately that they are brothers, together they set out to unravel the mysterious circumstances of their birth, which leads them into the sinister underworld of racketeers and sleazy opportunists who operate behind the scenes of professional golf. In 'Golf Heist,' more than a fortune in gold is at stake when a man loses his family during a daring robbery.

Mother and son are taken aboard the getaway helicopter along with the loot and are held captive on a remote island. Second Dallas Henry attorney and beach bum mystery novel. Ocean City, Maryland setting. Hideous murder comes to the posh country club set, with a vengeance! A Desmond Thomas Mystery Golf pro and wise-cracking attorney Desmond Thomas returns to the scene of the crime after the mysterious death of his close friend, club pro at the super-elite Chesapeake Bluffs Golf and Country Club.

He quickly finds that golf clubs are not the only things swinging at the prestigious resort. Intrigue, innuendo and illegalities rule the day, turning his investigation into a mine-field of temptations and legal liability, with hazards abounding both on and off the course. But he has a bulldog who helps him! Murder In the Rough: Tapply, and John Sandford. Second mystery with Max Roper. Written in the style of the British Golden Age Mysteries. Set on the Cornish coast in Eight golfers isolated by a storm on a peninsula hunt for a murderer in their midst. Published in in English as Stableford on Golf.

Five novellas; in the first Letitia Carberry takes up golf. All to Play For Moves at a fast pace between America and Ireland, telling the story of a group of golfers vying for the Ryder Cup, held in Killarney, Ireland. Murder mystery and social comedy concerning golfers in the Hamptons of Long Island. The fourth of a golf foursome keeps dying. Shefchik "makes a game attempt at realism, both in his portrayal of the tournament itself and in his premise: Publinx Championship and qualifies for the Masters.

Knowing he's overmatched, Sam Skarda goes to Augusta for the experience and finds himself in the midst of a murder investigation when the club's Rules Committee chairman is found facedown in the pond fronting the famous twelfth green. Shefchik combines a surprisingly grisly plot and a convincing villain with plenty of more or less realistic golf action.

Knowledgeable fans will still need to suspend some disbelief, but all in all, this one makes the cut. Oona Blackwell had her mind set on winning the local ladies' golf tournament and going on to the District Finals. Indeed, it seems, even death cannot stop her, for when her body is discovered, murdered, on the fourteenth tee, she has apparently scored a par -- after her death on the thirteenth hole. Hunter Knox, amateur sleuth, investigates. A golfer disappearing into thin air from a sand trap is more than new police chief Dan Shepard bargained for when he left the big city for the supposedly quiet resort town of Carmel, California.

A Lillian Byrd Crime Story Library Journal Review says: After some Los Angeles mentoring time with her oldest friend Truby, who's suddenly dying to try the lesbian lifestyle, the pair opt for Palm Springs, where Lillian's new-found love, golf pro Genie Mayfield, will play in a major tournament. Someone's been threatening Genie, however, and Lillian decides to play sleuth.

What she finds is a lethal combination of ex-coach and ex-boyfriend, a pairing fraught with hatred and violence. Murder mystery set during a women's golf tournament, in which a member is found floating off the twelfth tee. March and his team have to learn about golf fast to prevent the new course's closure.

First in a planned book series. Who on earth would want to kill old Charlie Tinkelpaugh? Also published as Meet Nero Wolfe. His doctor declares it a heart attack but Nero Wolfe looks at a cut-up newspaper and some steamship tags and calls it murder. The Clue of the Clever Canine San Francisco Peninsula setting, golf mystery. The Case of the Missing Links: A Hawaiian Golf Mystery Win and June are happy to have a chance to work in this romantic island paradise, but paradise gets complicated when their romance gets out of hand.

By the time they discover who's behind the pranks, it's almost too late to salvage the hotel's reputation and their own relationship. Murder amidst the members of the ultra-exclusive Palm Isle Golf Club in the Bahamas lures San Francisco detective Amos McGuffin to the spectacular duffer's paradise where his suspects run the gamut from predatory yacht-owning widows to sinister voodoo priests. A group of acclaimed authors co-wrote this novel of suspense, romance, and hilarity on the links. Three golf pros receive an invitation from multibillionaire Phillip Bates, founder of Macrodyne Software, to a tournament inaugurating his new course in Scotland and to launch his revolutionary computer operating system.

There they are joined by wild and wacky terrorists, golfers, caddies, and ecoterrorists who converge on the course for an explosive putt to end all putts. Hall, James Crumley, and Anonymous. Sandy Creek Country Club is thrust into the center of a horrific scandal when one of its cart girls is found murdered on the thirteenth hole of the golf course. Lieutenant Ron Carr, the lead investigator on the case, struggles to connect the meager evidence to any of the suspects, with help from the county medical examiner, Dr.

Jean Loreno, an attractive single mother who is looking for a father for her son.

A Golf Story While working as a summer intern at a prestigious Atlanta law firm, Charley Hunter, an avid golfer, stumbles upon a series of letters between the legendary Bobby Jones and talented teen golfer Beau Stedman, correspondence that draws him in a decades-old murder case. Early one morning, near the fifth hole, one of a foursome of retired men finds the dead body of Louise Pearsall, a club member, in the Ladies' rest room. Pearsall owns a dress shop, but on the side she traffics in the pharmaceutical Viagra, with some of the club members as her regular buyers.

During the final round of the Los Angeles Open, the caddie for the world's number one golfer is shot and killed by a sniper on national television.