Doppelganger Gambit

THE ULTIMATE ALIBI

The starship broker OD'd on a particularly nasty drug—and his files showed his personal responsibilities for a series of space disasters.

Suicide? Policewoman Janna Brill was ready to buy that, but her oddball sidekick, Mama Maxwell, smelled murder on the dead man's partner—and Mama Maxwell, for all his bizarre antics, had a reputation for being right.

The trouble was, the suspect had to be in the clear. The giant computer that kept hour-by-hour track of every citizen provided him with an absolute alibi. To nail the man, Mama would have to prove the computer wrong—and knock out the keystone of law and order for an entire country!