Writing stories was hard work—unless Fred
had a typewriter like "Reggie" that could write
by itself! Nonsense? Fred agreed until he met—
THE PLAGIARIST FROM RIGEL IV
By Evan Hunter
[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from
Imagination Stories of Science and Fantasy
March 1954
Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that
the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]
I bought the typewriter in a pawn shop on Third Avenue.
The pawn shop proprietor was a balding old man with a walrus mustache.
"How much?" I asked him.