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    Death on the Moon
    Death on the Moon
    Death on the Moon
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    Death on the Moon

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A novelette of 12,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. All of New Orleans is agog over Professor Tixall’s telescope, which can reportedly see life on the Moon. Rose Janvier is convinced that it’s a hoax, and a harmless one (though profitable for Professor Tixall), until one of her servants, looking through the telescope after hours, sees one of the “bat-people” of the Moon murder another one. Rose knows that murder has been done, but how do you prove it when the events supposedly took place on another planet?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateApr 19, 2016
    ISBN9781311278326
    Death on the Moon
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    Barbara Hambly

    Since her first published fantasy in 1982 - The Time of the Dark - Barbara Hambly has touched most of the bases in genre fiction. She has written mysteries, horror, mainstream historicals, graphic novels, sword-and-sorcery fantasy, romances, and Saturday Morning Cartoons. Born and raised in Southern California, she attended the University of California, Riverside, and spent one year at the University of Bordeaux, France. She married science fiction author George Alec Effinger, and lived part-time in New Orleans for a number of years. In her work as a novelist, she currently concentrates on horror (the Don Simon Ysidro vampire series) and historical whodunnits, the well-reviewed Benjamin January novels, though she has also written another historical whodunnit series under the name of Barbara Hamilton.Professor Hambly also teaches History part-time, paints, dances, and trains in martial arts. Follow her on Facebook, and on her blog at livejournal.com.Now a widow, she shares a house in Los Angeles with several small carnivores.

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      Death on the Moon - Barbara Hambly

      DEATH ON THE MOON

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Published by Barbara Hambly at Smashwords

      Copyright 2016 Barbara Hambly

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      Death on the Moon

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      Death on the Moon

      "But there is life on the Moon, Madame! Germaine Barras cried, her delicate schoolgirl features blazing with enthusiasm. Professor Herschel’s telescope proves it! And I’ve seen it myself!"

      Rose Janvier folded last week’s edition of the New Orleans Bee – with its accounts of the war in Spain and the rumblings of rebellion in the Mexican state of Texas related to minor notes under a page of shipping news, advertisements for pianos and imported silk, announcements of debt and auctions, and notices for runaway slaves – and put on her oval-lensed spectacles to regard the youngest of her pupils. Have you indeed?

      Mignot Lebrun – daughter of the woman who helped in the kitchen of the girls’ school on Rue Esplanade – poured another round of tea for the three pupils gathered around the breakfast table, then lingered in the dining-room door, her eyes like saucers.

      That’s nonsense. Marie-Anne Caulier – at sixteen the oldest of Rose’s scholars – folded her napkin and tucked it into its silver ring. If there had been people on the Moon, it would have said something about it in the Bible, and it doesn’t. How would they have gotten up there? And when?

      "They didn’t get up there! protested the younger girl. They’ve always been there! Listen—" She opened the pamphlet, printed, Rose observed, by the New York Sun, the paper which had carried the initial story about Sir John Herschel’s extraordinary discoveries the previous August. "They averaged four feet in height, were covered, except on the face, with short and glossy copper-colored hair, and had wings composed of a thin membrane, without hair, lying snugly upon their backs, from the top of their shoulders to the calves of their legs…these creatures were evidently engaged in conversation; their gesticulation, more particularly the varied action of their hands and arms, appeared impassioned and emphatic. We hence inferred that they were rational beings, and although not perhaps of so high an order as others which we discovered the next month on the shores of the Bay of Rainbows…"

      She shuffled at the pamphlet, seeking the description – Rose knew, for she’d read her own copy of that astounding document – of the more civilized man-bats dwelling in an area of the Moon dubbed the Ruby Colosseum.

      If they’re not like Earth-people, then they’re animals, returned Marie-Anne primly. However ‘clever’ this Mr. Herschel thinks they look. Man was the only creature God made in His own image.

      Whatever our opinions of Professor Herschel’s work, corrected Rose gently, let’s give him his proper title, shall we? So you’ve been to see Professor Tixall’s telescope, Germaine? I take it that was on Sunday, when you got up so early?

      The girl flushed, a little guiltily, because her Sunday excursion had been ostensibly to morning Mass with her older cousins. It was my Christmas present, early, she excused herself. But Professor Herschel is right! They didn’t act like animals. They were talking, and walking about the gardens, or flying, or reading these scrolls. They really are people!

      It is the Devil, said Marie-Anne, her lips tightening, "who causes people to

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