The Eel

by Miriam Allen deFord

HardPress Classic Books Series

Genres: Science Fiction

20 pages, Kindle Edition

First published April 14, 2010

About the author

Miriam Allen deFord was a suffragette, feminist, and Fortean who became better known for her science-fiction, true crime, and mystery writing after the 1940s. Her short fiction has been widely anthologized; she also edited an anthology of stories mixing science fiction with mystery called Space, Time, and Crime.

She received the 1961 Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America in the category of Best Fact Crime book for The Overbury Affair, which involves events during the reign of James I of Britain.

Reviews

[Debbie Zapata · Rating 3 out of 5]

What does one do with the most slippery criminal known to the Galaxy when he is finally caught after 26 years? Which of the planets howling for his neck to stretch will get him? And what will happen at The Eel's trial on the planet which wins the right to punish him for the crimes he committed there?

This nifty little story was originally published in the April 1958 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction magazine and is available free at Project Gutenberg here http://www.gutenberg.org/files/31981/...

[Chris Aldridge · Rating 4 out of 5]

5/20 21 mins. Part of LibriVox Audiobook “Short SF Collection Vol. 059”. Well narrated by Dale Grothmann. Having caught the super villain The Eel every world squabbles over the right to punish him. Fairly consistently amusing.