Captain Hank Karns, the Lone Trader, rides a sedan chair through the mud of Venusberg on a routine errand and finds himself caught up in false imprisonment, a smuggling ring and the run of bad luck that haunts the Mercury-Venus route. A cryptic code, “4-1/2B, Eros”, is the key, and the old trader means to read it.
Breezy planetary adventure from Planet Stories in 1941, a detective puzzle in space-opera clothes. Download the free EPUB.