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A suspenseful fun read about golf-loving Chipper Blair and how life is complicated by a beautiful golf pro, a reclusive Scotsman, an older widow, and the very rich in Pebble Beach.
Golf-loving driving range attendant at Pebble Beach golf course Walter “Chipper” Blair enjoys the simple joys of golf but his life is complicated by meeting the beautiful teaching pro Jenny Nelson and the reclusive very wealthy Scotsman Ben Morris who has an estate off the fourteenth fairway. Chipper has a strange relationship with a rich widow who gets him involved with the society crowd living in the Del Monte Forest near the golf course. Events spiral out of control for Chipper as he enrages his Pebble Beach Corporation employer and becomes the suspect in a possible murder investigation. The reader will enjoy this fun golf related suspense novel. Will he find love? Will he be indicted for murder? You will be immersed in the lifestyles of the rich and famous in this beautiful area; all the favorite haunts and restaurants. Great golf. Intrigue and mystery. Nothing is as it seems in Paradox at Pebble Beach.

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Fiction

Suspense

Monterey

Romance

Golf

Murder

Mystery

Monterey, California

Pebble Beach, California

Rich and Famous

Suspenso

Ricas y famosas

Monterrey (California)

Pebble Beach

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Publié par	iUniverse
Date de parution	22 juin 2023
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781663253538
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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PARADOX AT PEBBLE BEACH

MICHAEL DOVE

PARADOX AT PEBBLE BEACH

Copyright © 2023 Michael Dove.

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ISBN: 978-1-6632-5352-1 (sc)
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Library of Congress Control Number: 2023910485

iUniverse rev. date: 06/20/2023
CONTENTS
Legend for Map
Pebble Beach Company History
Ben
Jenny
Putting Heaven
Chipper
Irene
Just Playing Golf
Home on the Range
The Ocean Holes
Party Ready
The Hastings
Between The Brandy and Cognac
The Executive Committee
Del Monte Golf Course
The Coo’s Office
The Beach Club
Meeting Ben and Angus
Golberry
The Hay
The Nantz’s
Chipper’s Makeover
The Long Spoon
Golberry’s Office
Mission Ranch
Ben’s Kitchen
The Realtors
Miss America
Ben’s Putting Green
The Sunset Center
Still Undefeated
Real Estate Dealings
Steven Hastings
Nothing but Golf
Ben’s Advice
Money Talks
Irene’s Advice
The Webster House
Jenny Meets Ben
No Abandoned Property
Jenny and the Brassie
A Rare Vacation
Stein and Wallen
San Francisco Tourists
Pro Shop Inventory
The 911 Call
Grieving
Irene and Bill
Deputy Henderson
Dr. Friedman
Irene and the Sheriffs
Judson, Larkin, and Hitten
Dr. Friedman
Reading of the Will
Thomas Wallen
Double Dates
Surveillance
Walter Senior and Linda Blair
Questioning Jenny
Stein
Questioning Chipper
Strip Golf
Casey Boyns
Stein’s Lesson
Rebecca Sloane
Chipper’s Estate
Afterword
Author’s Note

“First ya’ picture it in the sky laddie against the cypress and the pine and the clouds. Then ya’ hit the ball exactly where ya’ see it and it flies where the maker in heaven can count the dimples. And he’s smilin’ as much as you are at the freedom…..at the beauty. Nothin’ can compare laddie.”
Ben Morris
Pebble Beach, California.

This novel is entirely a work of fiction and my imagina tion. Any resemblance to actual events or people would be tota lly coincidental. I have great respect for the Pebble Be ach Corporation. I have used my imagination to create events in this story that make it more interesting for the re ader.

LEGEND FOR MAP
1. IRENE’S ES TATE
2. BEN’S ES TATE
3. DRIVING R ANGE
4. THE HAY RESTAURANT AND BAR
5. THE L ODGE
6. PRO SHOP AND FIRST TEE
7. 7 TH HOLE
8. THE BEACH CLUB
9. WEBSTER ES TATE
10. NANTZ ES TATE
PEBBLE BEACH COMPANY HISTORY
1880
Pacific Improvement Company, headed by the “Big Four” of railroad fame—Charles Crocker, Leland Stanford, Collis Huntington and Mark Hopkins—open Hotel Del Monte near Monterey. Eleven years earlier, these ambitious gentlemen led the completion of the Trans-Continental Railway with the driving of the “Golden Spike.” Tourists now arrive on the Monterey Peninsula via Southern Pacific’s Del Monte Express.
1881
The Pacific Improvement Company opens scenic 17- Mile Drive along the majestic coast that hugs what is now Pebble Beach Company’s Del Monte Forest.
1887
Hotel Del Monte burns to the ground, but is quickly rebuilt and the official re-opening is held in 1888.

1901
Pacific Improvement Company collect their first toll for 17-Mile Drive, charging liverymen from Monterey and Pacific Grove $0.25 per person to access the Drive.
1907
Pacific Improvement Company announces plans for a summer resort at Pebble Beach, with coastal lots available for $500 to $2,500.
August 28 1909
The original lodge (made of logs) opens to serve meals to travelers on 17-Mile Drive.
1915
Pacific Improvement Company hires the entrepreneurial 29-year-old Samuel F.B. Morse, distant cousin of the inventor of the Morse Code, to liquidate all of the Company’s land holdings.
1917
A fire destroys The Lodge. Morse convinces Pacific Improvement Company to rebuild a “modern” lodge, rather than recreate what he called the old “log lodge.”

1919
Samuel F.B. Morse forms Del Monte Properties Company and buys the 18,000-acre Del Monte unit including Hotel Del Monte, The Lodge at Pebble Beach and two golf courses.
Both the new Lodge and Pebble Beach Golf Links open.
1924
The main building of Hotel Del Monte burns to the ground. Dynamiting the connecting loops during the fire saves the wings built in 1888. They remain to this day with a rebuilt main building, which opened in 1926.
1943
The U.S. Navy leases Hotel Del Monte as a naval pre-flight school “for the duration” of the war. Morse changes the corporate focus from the large hotel to the operation around Pebble Beach.
1947
The Bing Crosby National Pro-Am golf tournament is played for the first time at Pebble Beach (after being played for six years at Rancho Santa Fe before World War II).

1948
The U.S. Navy buys Hotel Del Monte from the Del Monte Properties Company for $2.2 million. It is now the Naval Postgraduate School.
1977
Del Monte Properties Company reincorporates as Pebble Beach Corporation.
1978
After the financial success of the movie Star Wars , Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation purchases Pebble Beach Corporation and reorganizes it as Pebble Beach Company
Del Monte Lodge is renamed The Lodge at Pebble Beach.
1986
The Crosby Clambake becomes the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am golf tournament.

1990
Ben Hogan Properties, under the ownership of Japanese businessman Minoru Isutani, purchases Pebble Beach Company.
1992
Taiheiyo Golf Club of Japan purchases Pebble Beach Company and continues the Morse tradition of stewardship of the land.
1999
A group of American investors, headed by Peter Ueberroth and Dick Ferris, purchase Pebble Beach Company from the Lone Cypress Company.
2001
Golf Digest ranks Pebble Beach Golf Links as the No. 1 Golf Course in America—the first time a public course has been so honored.
BEN
The old man was already awake when his radio, always on KRML from Carmel Valley, switched on at four thirty A.M. He liked the eclectic mix of songs and in the event he wasn’t already awake, it was upbeat enough to stir him from the soundest sleep. His dog Angus, cuddled beside him, showed little interest and rolled over on his back. Ben Morris stroked the dog’s stomach then groaned several times before starting his morning routine.
Ben reached over near the radio and slipped three Alleve into his mouth and washed them down with some mango juice drink he had placed the night before; not the best for his stomach, but he enjoyed it and it didn’t make much difference at his age anyway. Several years before Ben had decided to just eat what he enjoyed contrary to what his doctor advised. He left KRML music playing as Angus seemed to like it.
He moved the covers over Angus, tucked him in gently so only his head was showing, and slipped his own painful legs over the side of the bed with some difficulty. The arthritis and aches and pains seemed to get worse every year. But he could still swing a golf club and that’s all he cared about. Ben walked barefoot slowly about fifteen feet to his third floor balcony door, happy that he had heated floors both in the bedroom and on the balcony.
Ben’s house was off the fourteenth fairway at Pebble Beach golf course. A fifteen thousand square foot, four story, palatial mansion that overlooked not only the fourteenth fairway but had magnificent vistas of the green fairways and the dark blue Carmel Bay in the distance. He lived in the ten bedroom, twelve bath home alone. He knew that the western part of his back lawn, adjacent to the fairway was exactly one hundred and sixty seven and one half yards to the middle of the green; not an inch more or an inch less. He placed a one foot high stone marker on the spot several years earlier when his wife Aileen was still alive. She had painted her name and a heart on the stone.
Ben smiled as he looked over the balcony. Although dark, he could tell it wasn’t a foggy, cloudy morning; but that was no guarantee that the fog might roll in at any minute and make the day chillier and damp and worsen his constant arthritis pain. He checked the Intellisens