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Police Operation, by H. Beam Piper
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Title: Police Operation
Author: H. Beam Piper
Illustrator: Cartier
Release Date: August 16, 2006 [EBook #19067]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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POLICE OPERATION
BY H. BEAM PIPER
Hunting down the beast, under the best of circumstances, was dangerous. But in this little police operation, the conditions required the use of inadequate means!
Illustrated by Cartier
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"... there may be something in the nature of an occult police force, which operates to divert human suspicions, and to supply explanations that are good enough for whatever, somewhat in the nature of minds, human beings have--or that, if there be occult mischief makers and occult ravagers, they may be of a world also of other beings that are a