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A historical thriller, a novella, that introduces some of the characters in the author’s forthcoming novel, THE TECHNOLOGISTS, due in February. Based on an actual incident at the University of Virginia in 1840.
A group of students, masked, are rioting on campus for the right to bear arms at all times. A professor named Davis is shot by one of them and refuses to identify his assailant before he dies.
It’s left up to William Barton Rogers, future founder of M.I.T., to ferret out the murderer. He’s aided by a young student who suspects the culprit because he lent the fellow his pistol on request, only to discover later his box of balls, made by his own hand, missing. The student was seen by a slave, Jack, of the late professor just before the shot was fired.
It’s not enough proof.
Rogers comes up with a plan to bring him into the open.
Liked this one.
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