Death on the Moon edition by Barbara Hambly Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
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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?
Death on the Moon edition by Barbara Hambly Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
This is a Benjamin January short story about a con man who claims to be able to show (for a price) some people who live on the Moon living their lives. When one of the customers witnesses a murder that happens in the "moon" family, Benjamin has to figure out what everyone is actually seeing and of course who was killed and by whom.Product details
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Death on the Moon edition by Barbara Hambly Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks Reviews
Excellent as usual.
A quick well written story with all your favorite Benjamin January characters! I hope you enjoy it as much as I did ☺️
I am a long time Hambly reader; I love, esp. in the earlier books, the son et lumiere light and shadow imagery she handles so well, and she produced my favourite wizard of all time, Antryg Wndrose, but I am beginning to find the Afterward Tales a bit disappointing. Ten quarter loaves of fiction do not amount to the full loaf of a novel, let alon 2 and 1/2 novels; I am happy to read about adventures, but I'm starting to find that stories that are only adventure, without the character development and overall change that are possible in a novel is not enough. The Windrose stories are the pick of the AfterTales, but I'm beginning to want firstly some stronger developments and changes in Antryg and Joanna, and more importantly, at least some movement toward dissolving the impasse of Antryg the Archmage trapped in a magicless world.
I thought "Personal Paradise" might inaugurate something in this line, but it hasn't. So I am becoming more than a touch frustrated with this segment of the After Tales.
However, the bone I have to pick with "Death on the Moon" is over the, it seems, now unedited and apparently careless proliferation of a fault that has marked Hambly'r writing from early on that is, the huge adjectival parenthesis stuck in after a sentence subject, dislocating the entire sentence to Prokrustean levels and causing me at least to shudder and get jerked clean out of the story proper. In fact, the editor and essay marker's reflex to grab for the blue pencil and rescue this unfortunate sentence from its fate becomes all but uncontrollable.
Up till now I have put up with these blemishes because they are outweighed by the historical research, the son et lumiere, the characters, the neatness of the basic propositions. "Death on the Moon," unfortunately, overturned the balance. After five paragraphs in a row in the opening pages with dashed parentheses, and more multiplying throughout, eventually reaching the stage of a parenthesis in dashes *including* another in brackets, I have had enough. This doesn't look like well-organised, let alone good writing. This looks like slapdash work put together in such a hurry the writer didn't even respect her readers enough to go back through and self-edit for tics, as in repeated grammar or syntax or vocabulary over-use.
It may well be that Hambly needs the income that these stories generate, and I can sympathise with that. But I found the habit so annoying that I was unable to get into the story, let alone enjoy it, and though I don't grudge spending over $6 bucks Australian for stories of less than 20K words when they are well written, to cop this constant irritation atop the rest is just not on. So regretfully, from now on I will be checking out the After Tales in sample form, and perhaps, not buying them at all.
A nice little short for fans of Hambly's Benjamin January series.
This is a Benjamin January short story about a con man who claims to be able to show (for a price) some people who live on the Moon living their lives. When one of the customers witnesses a murder that happens in the "moon" family, Benjamin has to figure out what everyone is actually seeing and of course who was killed and by whom.
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