Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Bobby Jones, the son of a vicar, played golf with a friend. During the game, the ball flew out of sight, and the young man went to look for it. He could hardly have imagined he would find something quite different… A dying man. The last words the young Jones heard were: “Why not Evans?” This phrase and a photograph of a beautiful woman found with the victim are all the clues in this case. But the young man, fired by the idea of sorting out the tangled story, is in no way put off by their thinness. Together with his girlfriend, Bobby sets out to search for the answer…

“The Franky and Bobby are not quite as dazzling as other amateur detectives in other novels, but you’ll surely like them—and you may even forgive Agatha Christie, who, for variety, left Hercule Poirot offstage.”

The New York Times Book Review