Another Of Poul Anderson's Many Taverns

"The Double-Dyed Villains."

On p. 163, Wing Alak visits Yamen's tavern:

photoelectric doors;

crowded;

the sweepings of space;

many nonhumans from remote planets;

dim light;

smoke;

live show;

tiny stage;

small table;

dark corner;

coin into vendor for warm, thin beer from chute;

approached by a slithering, dragonlike, reptilian, drug-peddling Rassalan with "beadlly" (?) eyes, addicted to acrid, poisonous vurzin.

Some of Poul Anderson's taverns are underworld joints and this is.