The Coffin That Went to Sea
Written by
Frank Gruber
Copyright 1935
Published in Operator #5 #19, October 1935. Later printed in Action Adventure Stories #91, February 2001.
"There was only one way for Captain John Vedders of the Army Intelligence to keep the plans of the Pacific maneuvers from being delivered to the enemy, and that was to go to sea in a dead Chinaman's coffin!"