title: Luna: Puppy Detective: #1: Catnapped!
author: Kesmine Grace Hickman
description: Kesmine Hickman is an award-winning teen author who lives in Sierra Vista, Arizona. She has always possessed an unusual passion for creating thrilling and adventurous mystery stories. This talent allowed her to publish a book when she was only ten. The book, Kathy Carts, is a story about an eighteen-year-old detective. At age twelve, Kesmine decided to conjure up a new protagonist for the plot of another mystery series. The character, which is based on Kesmines charismatic Shih Tzu, Luna, is a shockingly snooty super sleuth that makes her first appearance in Luna: Puppy Detective #1: Catnapped! This death-defying dog continues her venturing throughout the entire Luna: Puppy Detective series, which Kesmine is currently working on. Aside from writing, Kesmine also enjoys Taekwondo, dance, horseback riding, spending time with her family, and playing with her four Shih Tzu dogs: Luna, Luke, Leia, and Leopold. For more information about Kesmine and her books, visit www.KesmineHickman.com.
zlib_text: **Wax** by Elizabeth Bear
  
  
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  No one slept well that night.
  
  
  A little after three A.M., as a cold whispering rain fell over steep-gabled
  slate, husbands silently pulled wives close in the clammy darkness. Nursemaids
  rose from narrow beds to check bundled babes; massive-headed mastiffs whined
  by banked hearthfires as household cats insinuated between dream-running paws;
  and in their warm, summer-smelling loose boxes, arch-necked carriage horses
  stamped and rolled white-rimmed eyes, leaning against the barred partitions to
  press flank to flank.
  
  
  The City of New Amsterdam tossed restlessly.
  
  
  Detective Crown Investigator Abigail Irene Garrett had no one to turn to for
  comfort on a dismal night in April. When the chill slipped like an unwelcome
  guest between sheet and featherbed and her faded blue eyes came open,
  Garrett’s hand crept automatically to the pistol under her pillow. Her half-
  awakened intellect checked her wards and guards. Intact. Despite the muffled
  impact of her h