The Hollywood Murders: The Devil To PayThe Four of HeartsThe Origin of Evil

THE WORLD FAMOUS DETECTIVE PRESENTS : MURDERS, MAYHEMS AND ASSORTED INIQUITIES FORM THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTHcontents * SOUTHERN SPAIN: The Beautiful Lady of El Puerto (05/30/54 as "The Fatal Tattoo") * JAPAN: Tokyo's Greatest Bank Robbery (06/27/54 as "Mad Murderer of Tokyo") * NORMANDY: Inspector Fosse's Last Case (08/08/54 as "The Gravedigger's Secret) * ARGENTINA: The Butcher of Buenos Aires (11/28/54 as "The Clue of the Missing Hands"). * RUMANIA: The Swindler of Adamolis (06/13/54 as "The Adamolis Swindle") * ALGERIA: The Strangled Bride of Oran (06/06/54 "The Strangled Bride") * MEXICO: The Jaws of Death (12/12/54 "The Claws of the Hawk") * INDIA: The Curse of Kali (07/18/54) * YUGOSLAVIA: Crime Wave, Balkan Style (07/04/54 as "No Name on the Search Warrant") * ECUADOR: The Mysterious Shooting at the Nacional (10/10/54 as "Masquerade for Murder") * PARIS: The Young Man Who Lost His Eyes (06/20/54 as "The Acid Test") * THE PHILIPPINES: Death in Manila (05/23/54 as "The Clue of the White Glove") * WESTERN AUSTRALIA: Death Among the Aborigines (07/11/54 as "Murder Down Under") * CZECHOSLOVAKIA: The Curious Case of the Flirt (08/01/54 as "The Girl Who Flirted with Death") * MONTE CARLO: The Crime of the Croupier (10/17/54) * MOROCCO: African Love Story (09/26/54 as "Murder at the Wedding") * TURKEY: Secrets of the Harem (10/21/54 as "Death in the Harem") * CHINA: The Shanghai Shootings (01/02/55 as "The Clue of the Passionate Poem") * MADRID: The Red Virgin (12/05/54 as "The Red Maiden of Madrid) * JERUSALEM: Passion in the Holy Land (08/15/54 as "Dead in the Garden")

The 9-word clue was one of 9 cryptic notes that had been sent to taunt Inspector Queen and Ellery 9 days after the murder. Nino Importuna had been obsessed with the number. He had lived by it. Now the killer who brought a trio of gory deaths to Nino's 9th-floor penthouse at No. 99 East was camouflaging his identity in a jungle of 9s. And daring Ellery to find him. The case was destined to be a dazzling contest of wits-to the 9th degree!