[Brill and Maxwell 01] • The 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!