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Carstairs, John. John Carstairs was created by Frank Belknap Long and appeared in eight stories in Thrilling Wonder Stories and Startling Stories between 1941 and 1945, beginning with “Plants Must Grow” (Thrilling Wonder Stories, Oct. 1941); the stories were collected in John Carstairs: Space Detective (1949).

In the future Dr. John Carstairs is a professional botanist and amateur crime-solver. Carstairs works for the Interplanetary Botanical Gardens as its curator, but he is bored with it, and longs for adventure, to find plants on alien planets, to experience thrills–but he’s stuck in the Gardens. Sometimes, though, thrills and adventure come to him, as when thieves steal a “carbon-eating Diamond Plant from Uranus” and Carstairs is left to deal with the consequences. Carstairs is assisted by Dr. Vera Dorn.

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