Bibliograph

Drinking gourd, a Benjamin January novel, Barbara Hambly

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Drinking gourd, a Benjamin January novel, Barbara Hambly

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

Drinking gourd

Oclc number

929123650

Responsibility statement

Barbara Hambly

Series statement

Benjamin January mystery, 14

Sub title

a Benjamin January novel

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."

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