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JUDGE NOT—LEST YOU BE JUDGED.

Judge William Zeiger (retired) was one of Central City’s most respected citizens—until someone stole into his office and blew a hole through his head with a .45. Now everyone from the Mayor on down is demanding answers, and it’s up to police lieutenant Lew Norris to produce some. His most promising lead: a mysterious nightclub singer who just might bring new meaning to the term drop-dead gorgeous...

Written 65 years ago and never published outside the pages of Guilty Detective Story magazine, THE JUDGE’S MISTRESS is vintage pulp fiction from a future legend: Robert Silverberg, SFWA Grand Master and five-time winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. This new volume also features three never-before-collected bonus stories selected specifically for this edition by the author: A Woman on the Side, The Doomsday Book Murders, and The Ace of Spades Means Death.

• First publication ever in book form—and first ever under the author’s real name!
• Silverberg, who personally curated this volume at age 91, is a five-time winner of both the Nebula and Hugo awards, science fiction’s highest honors, and was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction Writers of America
• Kirkus Reviews on Silverberg’s previous Hard Case Crime novel: "Genuinely juicy pulp noir...Silverberg’s novel isn’t a modern homage but the real thing; he brings the same vigor and imagination to noir that characterizes his award-winning science fiction."

"Dazzling."

— Michael Chabon

"A master of his craft."

— Los Angeles Times

"A sure-fire page turner."

— Chicago Sun-Times