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Nine Times Nine (Library of Crime Classics)
Nine Times Nine - Library of Crime Classics Author:Anthony Boucher The man in the yellow robe had put a curse on Wolfe Harrigan -- the ancient curse called the Nine Times Nine. And when Matt Duncan looked up from the croquet lawn that afternoon, he saw the man in the yellow robe in Wolfe Harrigan's study. When Matt got there, all the doors were locked and all the windows, too; all locked from the inside. Ha... more »rrigan's sister sat outside the room. She had seen no one come out. But when the door was broken down, there was no man in a yellow robe in the room, and the body of Wolfe Harrigan lay murdered on the floor. Later the police discovered that at the time of the murder the man in the yellow robe was lecturing to a group of his followers miles away. Who better to explain the miracles of a man being in two places at once than Sister Ursula, a nun whose childhood ambbition was to become a policewoman.
Originally published in 1940 under the name "H.H. Holmes."« less