A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in the magazine Startling Stories in 1948.

A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in the magazine Startling Stories in 1948. Later reprinted in the collection The Complete Magnus Ridolph and in Magic Highways.

A short story by Jack Vance, featuring Magnus Ridoplh, first published in 1949. Later reprinted in The Many Worlds of Magnus Ridoph and The Complete Magnus Ridolph.

A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in 1949 in the magazine Startling Stories. Later reprinted in the collection The Complete Magnus Ridolph and also in Magic Highways, The Early Jack Vance Volume Three.

A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Startling Stories magazine in 1950 with the title "Cosmic Hotfoot". Later republished as "To B or Not to C or to D"

A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Startling Stories magazine in 1950. Later reprinted in The Complete Magnus Ridoph and also in Magic Highways.

A short story by Jack Vance, featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in Thrilling Wonder Stories, October 1952.

A short story by Jack Vance featuring Magnus Ridolph, first published in 1958 in the magazine Super Science Fiction with the title "Worlds of Origin".

Magnus Ridolph, at first glance, did not look like an interstellar troubleshooter. He was not tall and muscular, his skin had not been turned to a rugged color by the numerous distant suns he had visited, and his voice and manner seemed far too mild for an adventurer. Yet there was a chill hardness in his mild blue eyes that warned of the deceptiveness in his appearance. Throughout the galaxy, there were men and other beings - Yellowbirds, Tau Gemini ant-things, Hecatian anthropes - who could testify to the deadliness that lurked behind those eyes. In Magnus Ridolph, Jack Vance has created one of the most memorable characters of his award-winning career.