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. Harrigan’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! A man who could be in two places at once? An astral body? A miracle, perhaps? Then who better to explain miracles than Sister Ursula, a nun, whose childhood ambition was to become a policewoman. (Publisher’s description)

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