Stanley Mullen 32 min read

A slovenly frontier inspector puts his feet on the desk and mocks the 'pretty boys' of the Space Patrol, not knowing his visitor is Heydrick, survivor of the first Trans-Plutonian Expedition.

Stanley Mullen's 1949 story is a fast, colorful space opera of frontier lawmen and dangerous fugitives. Vivid, hard-boiled golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale of a legendary pirate-chaser dropped into a slime-hole outpost on a very ugly assignment.

In its time

Published in 1949, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Al McWilliams