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Man Who Knew Too Much, Vanishing Prince

This time Fisher is after an Irish criminal who is extraordinarily clever. The police have him trapped in a tower.  Five police approach--four windows, one door.  Two of the police are killed, other two injured.  How did he do it?  He didn't.  He wasn't there. One of the policemen, eager to prove his own skill, kills his partners as they all peer into the space where the criminal is supposed to be.  He then falls backward on his ladder to feign injury.

Fisher figures it all out . . . but . . . it's the English investigating the Irish.  They can't let the scandalous behavior of the English cop get out. So, the cop's actions are covered up and the Irish criminal goes to jail.  (Fisher does help him escape.)  Again, he is the "man who knew too much."

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