“Mystery at Mesa Flat” by Ivar Jorgensen

This story is reprinted courtesy of Project Gutenberg. View the source text.

Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy, June, 1956

A small desert town didn’t seem a likely
place to encounter murder—especially one that
had been planned on a world light years away!

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