Spider Play — Lee Killough

SPACE CORPSE

It started out as a routine vehicle theft. But when the stolen hearse and the body within it later turned up horribly mutilated, Detective Janna Brill and her male partner Mama Maxwell felt they were on to something much bigger; and much deadlier -- and Mama's instincts were never wrong.

The evidence kept circling around the Spider; the construction-making miracle on the Lanour Space Platform. It would soon lead Brill and Maxwell on a twisted trail from a gang war on Earth... to a citadel of technology in space... to a heart-stopping race from a corporate army all too ready to kill to protect its secrets -- and towards the web of the marvel that has now become a deadly...