ABOVE: Fenimore Country Club, Scarsdale, New York, 1929.
By John Coyne
Copyright © John Coyne. Used with permission.
ONE OF MY FAVORITE WRITERS is someone I discovered in my caddie days. His name is John P. Marquand.
The first book of his that I read was Point of No Return published in 1949. At the time, Marquand was already famous for his spy novels about the fictional Mr. Moto. These books were turned into a series of films in the 1930s starring Peter Lorre.
I never read his spy novels, but in a burst of reading long into the night during high school, I read The Last George Apley, Melville Goodwin, USA, Sincerely, Willis Wayde.