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Celestial Moon: A Peter Dawes Investigation
A happy wedding in San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1879 is catastrophically interrupted when the bride to be is kidnapped and her family murdered. She is smuggled to New York City where she is held captive.
On a moonlit night in March Albert Pinkham Ryder leaves the hotel his brother manages and walks from the Greenwich village location to the heart of Chinatown. There he comes upon a Chinese woman staring at the moon.
Albert attempts to communicate with her but she doesn’t speak English. After using his sketchpad to convince the Chinese woman that he is truly an artist she agrees to sit for him.
The painting is finished and about to be sold to an art dealer when it and the model disappear.
On a moonlit night in March Albert Pinkham Ryder leaves the hotel his brother manages and walks from the Greenwich village location to the heart of Chinatown. There he comes upon a Chinese woman staring at the moon.
Albert attempts to communicate with her but she doesn’t speak English. After using his sketchpad to convince the Chinese woman that he is truly an artist she agrees to sit for him.
The painting is finished and about to be sold to an art dealer when it and the model disappear.
292 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 9, 2012
About the author
William Behr Mueller
72 booksI live and write in Sacramento. My wife, Jerrilee, no longer teaches elementary students, rather she enjoys taking care of our grandson Owen a couple of times a week.
As a freelancer I've written over a hundred articles and stories in national magazines. I've worked at various companies producing user manuals, operator guides and reports.
Being a one-man publishing business requires more work than the initial writing. Having had experience with other publishers where words didn't come out exactly as they were written, the ins and outs of independent publishing seem much less onerous when those faux pas are kept in mind.
As you can see my fiction is wide ranging, another benefit of indie publishing. A traditional publisher would want a pigeonhole and production, neither of which is appealing.
As a freelancer I've written over a hundred articles and stories in national magazines. I've worked at various companies producing user manuals, operator guides and reports.
Being a one-man publishing business requires more work than the initial writing. Having had experience with other publishers where words didn't come out exactly as they were written, the ins and outs of independent publishing seem much less onerous when those faux pas are kept in mind.
As you can see my fiction is wide ranging, another benefit of indie publishing. A traditional publisher would want a pigeonhole and production, neither of which is appealing.
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