E. E. Smith & Hans Waldemar Wessolowski 
Skylark Three [PDF ebook] 

Take off for an intergalactic adventure with swashbuckling entrepreneur Marc "Blackie" Du Quesne. In Skylark Three, the second volume in Edward E. Smith’s popular Skylark series, Du Quesne is coming into his own as a powerful businessman and decides to explore outer space in search of the wisdom of other inhabitants of the universe.