That Sweet Little Old Lady

"That Sweet Little Old Lady" by Randall Garrett and Laurence M. Janifer is a science fiction tale that plunges FBI agent Kenneth Malone into a whirlwind of espionage and unexpected encounters. Malone is assigned the daunting task of tracking down a telepathic spy jeopardizing national security. Amidst the high-stakes investigation, he crosses paths with the peculiar Miss Thompson, a sweet old lady who insists she's none other than Queen Elizabeth I herself. Malone struggles to reconcile the serious threat of the telepathic spy with the whimsical claims of the elderly woman, creating a bizarre and humorous situation as he tries to solve a crime while dealing with the daily life of Miss Thompson.

Gordon Randall Phillip David Garrett was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He was a contributor to Astounding and other science fiction magazines of the 1950s and 1960s. He instructed Robert Silverberg in the techniques of selling large quantities of action-adventure science fiction, and collaborated with him on two novels about men from Earth disrupting a peaceful agrarian civilization on an alien planet.