The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster

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The Ambulance Made Two Trips by Murray Leinster is a clever and entertaining science-fiction story that mixes crime, mystery, humor, and one very unusual scientific idea. Detective Sergeant Fitzgerald knows exactly who is causing trouble in town. Powerful racketeer Big Jake Connors has built his influence through intimidation, violence, and corruption, yet the police have little they can use against him. Connors and his men appear almost untouchable—until they choose the wrong small business to threaten. When a local establishment refuses to cooperate with the gangsters, strange accidents begin happening. Plans that should be simple suddenly go wrong. Threats backfire, unlikely coincidences appear at exactly the right moment, and Fitzgerald begins to suspect that something far stranger than ordinary resistance is working against Big Jake. His investiga