Canadian Gotlieb turns in a typically convoluted performance, a mystery set on several
exotic worlds Her protagonist, a gill-breathing lizard-woman named Skerow, is a circuit
judge about to end her duties on Fthel V, a grimy mining planet But when the senior judge,
Thordh, is murdered, Skerow must unravel the story of his death Thordh was involved with
slavery, mining gold with forced labor But the flesh of Gotlieb's title also refers to
prostitution, since an almost human woman is murdered, too, in the making of a snuff film
Her murderers can be traced to the mining operation, and the mining operation to
The plot is a teaser, waylaid by poetic asides about the customs of aliens and telepathic
encounters with the dead, and it may be best to read Gotlieb for her sly humor

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