Transcriber's Note:
This etext was produced from the September 1953 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.
This planet gave him the perfect chance to
commit the perfect crime—only he couldn't
remember just what it was he had committed.
DELAYED ACTION
By CHARLES V. DeVET
Illustrated by DICK FRANCIS
t was just a hunch. Johnson knew that, but his hunches had often paid off in the past, and now he waited with a big man's patience. For five hours he sat in the wooden stands, under the rumpled canvas the concessionaires had put up to protect the tourists from Marlock's yellow sun.