The Count of 9 Author:Erle Stanley Gardner ( under pseud. A. A. Fair) Originally published in 1958. This copy is the 3rd pb printing- January 1966, in very good condition. — Inspector Giddings looked at Donald Lam the way a trainer might look at a battered prize-fighter to see if he should throw in the towel. "You look as though you took the full 10 count." — "Only to the count of 9," Lam retorted. — *This is a Berth... more »a Cool-Donald Lam Mystery*« less