Chapter 24
Seabrook, 2874
With less than a day to solve the murder and escape from this planet, I had to track down a crack diver without a description, and without any idea if he had already disappeared beneath the waves. For all I knew, he could be deep in the geothermal vent regions already.
I left the brothels under the glares of the tall, hairless women that I saw as I entered. I got the feeling that they didn’t want to see me back.
I couldn’t simply go to the port and start accusing every deep water diving operator I saw with murder. It wouldn’t be healthy, for one thing, and I doubted that it would elicit any sudden confession from someone capable of shooting a harpoon through an alien.
I’d have to do what I told Holburn and Jun’lack that I could do, go into some of the places
