The Perfect Crime: The invention of displacement booths produced one hell of a crime wave.
If a man in, say, Hawaii could commit murder in, say, Chicago and be back in the time it would take him to visit the men's room, he would have a perfect alibi. And the police would have a problem.
But that's only one of the problems found in Larry Niven's universe, in this collection of stories all about teleportation, deep space, black holes, artificial worlds and Louis Wu our old friend from the "Known Space" cycle Niven once again proves he's a master builder of fantastic worlds!
