Count of Nine

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Summary: A Guard Job Gone Bad
Review: It's was Bertha Cool's job. She was to insure nobody gate crashed a party. It was added security for an apartment that had already been robbed once. Between Bertha Cool and an x-ray scan installed in the elevator, nobody was going to steal anything from the client's collection of artifacts.

However, despite the precautions, two items did end up missing - a 6 foot blowgun, and a valuable jade figurine. It was up to Donald Lam to figure out just how these items were stolen - and how to retrieve them.

Figuing out how a 6-foot blowgun and a jade figurine were stolen despite Bertha and the x-ray machine, and then retrieving them was an easy task for Donald Lam. What was harder to solve was the death of the client - apparantly shot with a dart from his own blowgun.

As usual, Donald gets beat up, takes his lumps, and then outwits those who crossed him.