Their Majesties' Bucketeers

by L. Neil Smith

         On an alien world whose furry, nine-legged crablike inhabitiants are just entering their own "Age of Invention", a royal "fireman" must create the art of criminal detection from scratch, in order to solve the murder of his favorite teacher.

New York: A Del Rey Book Published by Ballantine Books, 1981.

182 pages, mass-market paperback

Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: [not given]

ISBN 0-345-29244-8

First Edition: August 1981

Cover art by Ralph Brillhart