Frank Herbert's "Rat Race" (short story, detective, free): Rats are to men as men are to...

A police detective, during a routine errand to a mortuary, asks an idle question about something kept there. He gets an evasive response. He smells rat, & we are on to something really big...

Fact sheet.

First published: Astounding, July 1955.
Download full text as part of scans of Astounding (British Edition), December 1955.
Rating: A.
Among the stories from Astounding/Analog issues edited by John Campbell.
Related: Stories of Frank Herbert; fiction where men are lab animals to aliens.