Leland Hale, Galactic Conman

Here is master science fiction humorist Randall Garrett's rarest and never before reprinted series. Introducing Leland Hale, who will steal your heart—and all your money! Fraud, larceny and murder are all in the day's work for this master interstellar confidence man.

Hale is about to descend on the planet Cardigan's Green with a planetary scam designed to make him rich at the population's expense. What he doesn't know is that he is also about to become a savior! And if he survives this one, he has two more brilliant schemes in mind.

For the first time ever, here are all three Leland Hale capers in one volume. As a special bonus, this edition features the original magazine illustrations for the stories by the Hugo winning Artists: Ed Emsh, Virgil Finlay, and John Schoenherr.

“[These] stories, which have never been reprinted since their one and only appearance on cheap pulpwood paper ... ensure that readers will remember his work at least a little longer. They will have an opportunity to encounter that sly sense of humor, those brilliant mystery and detective problems and that almost unmatched ability to work complex scientific principles into exciting stories.” —Mark Cole, Internet Review of Science Fiction.