Miracle on the 17th Green. Poster of the 1999 movie and cover of the 1996 book
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Miracle on the 17th Green
James Patterson, Peter de Jonge, 1996
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Michael Switzer, 1999

Mitch McKinley, a contented middle-aged ad executive, becomes unemployed and decides to follow his dream of competing on the PGA Senior Tour, neglecting his wife and family in the process. Despite facing considerable challenges, he becomes increasingly focused on his new talent, but this obsession risks ruining his relationships with his loved ones.


I'll Be Seeing You. Poster of the 2004 movie and cover of the 1993 book
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I'll Be Seeing You
Mary Higgins Clark, 1993
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Will Dixon, 2004

Patricia Collins is called to the morgue one evening to help identify a deceased. She discovers, to her astonishment, that the person on the gurney is a duplicate of herself! She must persuade the insurance company that her missing father, Dr. Burton Collins, is dead while trying to solve this mystery. They contend that he faked his own death to commit financial fraud in the absence of a body. Patricia investigates her father’s affairs in-depth in an effort to clear his name and learns that he was keeping a sinister secret.