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Why did everybody step off the ship in this strange valley and promptly drop dead? How could a well-equipped corps of tough spacemen become a field of rotting skeletons in this quiet world of peace and contentment? It was a mystery Peter and Sherri had to solve. If they could live long enough!

This classic 1956 science fiction short story first appeared in Amazing Stories in October 1956. "The Judas Valley" was coauthored by Randall Garrett (1927-1987) and Robert Silverberg (1935-) under the pseudonym Gerald Vance.