Empire at Auction
Written by
Frank Gruber
Copyright 1936
Published in Operator #5 #22, January 1936
"Captain John Vedders was playing for big stakes... And before he got through, he discovered he was bucking a crooked game with short cash and a poor hand!" Vedders goes undercover as a strikebreaker dealing with a group of communist agitators while trying to get information on an inventor of a deadly new weapon.