Cholwell's Chickens

In Cholwell's Chickens, the now-wealthy Jean sets off to her home planet of Codrion to try to find out about her parents.

In Cholwell's Chickens, Jean Parlier is wealthy from her reward from the previous venture on the space station, but as she is still a minor, she has to give a legal guardian, a fifty-year-old accountant named Mycroft.

Cholwell recovers and says he is seeking investors for a genetically-modified chicken cloning operation he is setting up on Codrion.

In the attic above her foster father's old bar, she finds more clues in an old photo album, which lead her to Cholwell's laboratory facilities.

She goes to see Cholwell's estate, only to discover that his claim of raising "chickens" was a front for his human cloning experiments.

While amoral, beautiful, and willing to use her looks and sex appeal to advance her goals, she did not fit the cliche femme fatale template popular in noir and hardboiled fiction of the era (note that in Cholwell's Chickens, the first half of the story has a noirish mystery-type feel).