039- Nine-Finger Jack, by Anthony Boucher, 1952

039- Nine-Finger Jack, by Anthony Boucher, 1952

Wherein a Man marries his ninth Wife and nobody is suspicious.

Ruiz Tremello & Marguerite are in Acapulco, Yukon Territories, discussing the 1952 short story, "Nine-Finger Jack", by Anthony Boucher!

This one is something special: and not just because it's short enough that Ruiz can read the whole thing verbatim. No, it's special because of reasons that shouldn't be revealed here, because of spoilers.

Honestly though, I'm very interested in reading more of Anthony Boucher's works, even if he did mostly write mysteries- and I'm not much of a fan of mysteries. I don't know why, but I never guess Who Did The Crime, even when I'm watching Law & Order, or NCIS or whatever- if we're ten minutes from the end of the episode and you ask me, "who's the killer?" I'll probably just name all the suspects and not provide any salient insight whatsoever.

Maybe it's something awry with my brain, kind of like how I'm terrible at remembering jokes?