Carl Jacobi 28 min read

Grannie Annie, who writes science fiction as Annabella C. Flowers, has stumbled onto a real murderous plot wilder than any she invented, and the villain is shooting at her narrator, not her.

Carl Jacobi's 1944 story sends its indomitable old lady adventurer and her put-upon sidekick into a rollicking space-opera mystery on Venus. Fun, fast, colorful golden-age pulp. Read it for a delightful romp starring a two-fisted grandmother of the spaceways.

In its time

Published in 1944, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

28 min read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

Graham Ingels