Plague Ship
By: by Andre Norton.
Edition: 3rd Ace printing
Series: Solar Queen #2
Publisher: Ace Books
Published: October 1973
Place of publication: New York, NY
ISBN-13: 044166832095
Subjects: Solar Queen (Imaginary space vehicle) -- Fiction.; Life on other planets -- Fiction.; Space ships -- Fiction.
Genres: Science Fiction.
Description: The tramp-freighter spaceship Solar Queen had exclusive trading rights to Sargol and its fabulous gems. But the crew's bravery and resourcefulness strained to the breaking point as they met Sargol's three challenges: the enigmatic obstinancy of the planet's catlike natives, ruthless incursions of an illegal competitor, and worst of all -- an invisible, undetectable stowaway whose presence branded the Solar Queen a plague ship...off limits to the rest of the galaxy!
Notes: Ace #66832.
Reprint of 1964 edition. Originally published: New York, NY: Gnome, 1956, under the pseudonym Andrew North.
Cover art by Davis Meltzer.