Malcolm Jameson 37 min read

Special Investigator Billy Neville is annoyed: fresh from stamping out the gooroo racket on Venus, he's been shunted to little Pallas to chase a wave of System-wide blackmail.

Malcolm Jameson's 1942 story is a colorful space-opera adventure of an interplanetary lawman on the case. Fast, engaging golden-age pulp. Read it for a rousing tale where a weary investigator trades his leave for one more assignment, tracking an extortion ring to a traveling stellar showboat among the asteroids.

In its time

Published in 1942, during the 1940s, the golden age begins.

Reading it

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

Illustrated by

Alexander Leydenfrost