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    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven
    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven
    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven
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    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven

    By Barbara Hambly

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    A short story in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color series. Rose Janvier, Benjamin's wife, is left at home in pre-Civil-War New Orleans when Benjamin goes off to solve a crime in another city. When the high-living brother of one of her neighbors is murdered, Rose uses her own detective skills to track down the killer, despite the fact that the white City Guards have arrested her and everyone else on the street as suspects.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarbara Hambly
    Release dateJul 13, 2015
    ISBN9781311286420
    A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven
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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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      A Time For Every Purpose Under Heaven - Barbara Hambly

      A TIME TO EVERY PURPOSE

      UNDER HEAVEN

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2010 Barbara Hambly

      Cover art by Eric Baldwin

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      Table of Contents

      A Time To Every Purpose Under Heaven

      About The Author

      The Further Adventures

      A Time to Every Purpose Under Heaven

      by

      Barbara Hambly

      Rose Janvier was the first neighbor across Rue Esplanade that morning at the sound of Agathe Truande’s screams: this turned out to be an extremely unfortunate circumstance for a number of the people concerned.

      It was early June and suffocatingly hot in New Orleans. Though by nature a scholar rather than a housewife, Rose had enough sense to begin her day’s chores as soon as it was light enough to see. As a result, she had the worst of them – ashes shoveled out of the kitchen hearth and the chamber-pot scoured with turpentine – finished by seven, and had just filled the tea-pot from the hearth-kettle and taken up the butter from the cold-jar buried in the coolest corner of the yard, when she heard the scream.

      Rose caught up her long skirts and dashed from the pantry through the long, dim parlor, stopped on the gallery for the instant it took her to identify where the second scream originated – on the opposite side of the Rue Esplanade – then fleeted across and through the French door of the little green cottage, to find Joseph Truande sprawled dead beside the breakfast-table in a pool of his blood.

      Joseph’s sister Agathe, crumpled on her knees in the doorway that led from the dining-room into the yard, pressed her hands to her face, her thin body racked with weeping. Rose demanded immediately, Are you hurt? and when the woman only sobbed louder, jerked her around to face her, and scanned her swiftly for blood. Seeing none she went to the table, where there definitely was blood.

      And confirmed that yes, Joseph Truande was dead.

      His silk dressing-gown gave his body the look of a slaughtered pheasant. He’d been stabbed in the side, and brought down his chair in his fall. Flies roared around the wound. A few had already drowned in the darkly sticky blood-pool. The first thread of what was swiftly going to become a ribbon of ants, the bane of New Orleans kitchens, already snaked its way from the baseboard across to the young man’s face.

      As a little girl on the Gulf islands, Rose had

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