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Drinking gourd  Cover Image Book Book

Drinking gourd / Barbara Hambly.

Hambly, Barbara, (author.).

Summary:

"Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad – the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain – the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi – is accused of the crime. Since Cain can’t expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January has to step in and find the true killer, before their covers are blown. As January probes into the murky labyrinth of slaves, slave-holders, the fugitives who follow the 'drinking gourd' north to freedom and those who help them on their way, he discovers that there is more to the situation than meets the eye, and that sometimes there are no easy."

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780727886064 (case)
  • ISBN: 0727886061 (case)
  • Physical Description: 248 pages ; 23 cm.
  • Edition: First world edition.
  • Publisher: Sutton, Surrey, England : Severn House Publishers LTD, 2016.
Subject: January, Benjamin (Fictitious character) > Fiction.
Free African Americans > Fiction.
Private investigators > Fiction.
Underground Railroad > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Kenton County.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Covington Branch M HAMBL B (Text) 33126020516377 Mystery Available -


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