A collection of short stories about Chap Foey Rider, a Chinese American entrepreneur, who discovers the existence of Galactic Postal Union and opens the way for the Earth to establish extraterrestrial diplomatic relations.

FOR THE UNIQUE PROBLEMS OF TAHITI...YOU NEED A UNIQUE DETECTIVE: JOE CANEILI! What's a nice farmboy from Bookbinder, Kansas, tough but fair, doing as the only Private Eye in the South Pacific? A minor disagreement with the fine Police Officers of Cologne, Germany... 23 years as a Sergeant-Major in the French Foreign Legion... A sardonic eye for the vagaries of human nature... Nothing in Tahiti is too strange for Caneili! Included in this volume are: THE STOLEN GRANDFATHER FIRE IN THE ISLANDS THE MISSING HOUSE CRIME WAVE BATTERS TAHITI! THE GIRL IN THE PICTURE "LE PERE NOEL ON CHRISTMAS ISLAND" THE LETHAL LEETEG

PERILS OF THE ASTEROID BELT! Its dangers are known to all: the isolation, the vacuum of space, the interplanetary cold, the unimaginable distances.... But for JONATHAN WHITE, BROKER

Third or fourth death? thought Yuri uneasily. Have I heard him right? What can he mean? once again he was about to be zombed into imbecilic docility.