Synopsis
S.I.S. officer Harrington is on the moon to find out what happened to minerologist Harvey Wood.
History
First publication: Wonder Stories, April 1933
Review
A competent SF story for the 1930s. There seems to have been a love for this sort of space mystery where a ridiculously honest police service ferrets out the bad guys and serves justice. R. F. Starzl wrote a lot of this sort of thing. There are some interesting things to the story, mainly the idea of earth establishing mines on the moon. That idea was still current in The High Frontier by O’Neill and there may still be such plans in the works. The details of the science has changed but the basic description hasn’t really. But the only ones who would like reading this story today are those like me that are interested in the history of science fiction. Still, it is one of the better Eando Binder stories I’ve read.
