The Ambassador's Staff (Short Story)(Complete)
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This story was originally published in "Thoughtcrime Experiments," an anthology edited by Sumana Harihareswara and Leonard Richardson. You can find the entire anthology online at thoughtcrime.crummy.com.
“The Ambassador’s Staff” is a future-noir detective tale, set on a spaceport on Earth. When the Martian ambassador dies unexpectedly during a visit to Earth, only a lone private detective and her client--a kid from the wrong side of town--suspect it might have been...murder.
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