Laurence M. Janifer & Randall Garrett 3 hr 12 min read

The FBI needs a telepath to catch a spy, and the only mind-reader available is convinced she's Queen Elizabeth I.

Randall Garrett and Laurence Janifer's 1962 novel (as 'Mark Phillips') launches their comic Kenneth Malone series, in which a bewildered agent must work with an eccentric, crown-wearing telepath. Genuinely funny psi-powered SF with a light, screwball touch. Read it for witty golden-age comedy about espionage, telepathy, and a very unusual royal.

In its time

Published in 1962, during the 1960s, new wave revolutionizes the genre.

Reading it

3 hr 12 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).