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Author:

Hambly, Barbara.

Title:

Drinking gourd : a Benjamin January novel / Barbara Hambly.

Publisher:

Severn House,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

248 pages.

Subject:

January, Benjamin (Fictitious character)--Fiction.
Underground Railroad--Fiction.
Free African Americans--Fiction.
Private investigators--Fiction.

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 cant 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."

ISBN:

0727886061
9780727886064

Locations:

BOPG851 -- Ames Public Library (Ames)

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

ALPE516 -- Fairfield Public Library (Fairfield)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

NGPB343 -- Rockford Public Library (Rockford)

LAPH975 -- Sioux City Public Library (Sioux City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

GDPF771 -- Urbandale Public Library (Urbandale)