The Problem Solver and the Defector
Written by
Christopher Anvil
Copyright 1966
Printed in Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1966. Reprinted in the collection
An East European embassy official contacts the CIA wanting to defect and offering to bring with him the diagram of 'Shower', a foreign missile, that the Agency is wanting. The defector calls to say he was being followed and is later found dead from being run off the road. What the CIA agents wants is help finding where the man may have hidden the diagram.