The
Count of Nine is one of the Cool & Lam novels
written by Erle Stanley Gardner (of Perry Mason fame) which he wrote under the pen
name of A. A. Fair.
The
private investigative firm of Cool & Lam (Bertha and Donald, respectively)
are hired by Dean Crockett the Second to guard his valuables during his upcoming
soiree – given that one of his two priceless jade buddhas was stolen at his
last soiree. Unfortunately, even with
Bertha like a bulldog checking the guests in, not only is the second jade buddha
stolen, but the blow gun Crockett recently brough back from Africa.
Lam
figures out who took them and recovers them fairly quickly, but in attempting
to return them, he finds that Crockett has been murdered with a blow gun dart
in a locked room. The obvious answer is
his wife did it.
A
twisty and satisfying mystery.
[This
review appears on my blog, Amazon.com, and Goodreads.com.]
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