Enjamin 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 natu.
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HardcoverÛ Drinking Gourd Epub ì drinking pdf, gourd book, Drinking Gourd PDFIn the 13th book of the Benjamin January mysteries Benjamin's participation in the Underground Railroad takes a turn for the complicated The plot starts when Benjamin is summoned to the small town of Vicksburg Mississippi where the local Railroad workers need a doctor who knows how to keep secrets He brings along his friend Hannibal a white man for protection and they soon find that there are many secrets around than either anticipatedThis is a hard book to talk about without spoilers because of those very secrets Many characters who seem trustworthy prove not to be and first appearances count for very little But without giving away specific plot details I can say that the book deals with a paradox tha
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HardcoverÛ Drinking Gourd Epub ì drinking pdf, gourd book, Drinking Gourd PDFOnce again a one sitting read from Barbara Hambly Ben is called to Vicksburg where the Underground Railroad is in need of a surgeon So off Ben goes accompanied by Hannibal necessary protection for a black man in that time and placeLike many of the books in this series particularly the later ones the moralityethics of the situations in which the characters find the
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HardcoverÛ Drinking Gourd Epub ì drinking pdf, gourd book, Drinking Gourd PDFHambly at Her BestI have read each book in the Benjamin January series and have never been disappointed Drinking Gourd is no exception and is one of the best in the series The Januarys' involvement in the Underground Railroad at home in New Orleans leads Benjamin and Hannibal to leave their employment as musicians with a traveling circus to come to the aid of an injured agent who is in jeopardy of being exposed His exposure should jeopardize not only that of the station ma
HardcoverÛ Drinking Gourd Epub ì drinking pdf, gourd book, Drinking Gourd PDFI thoroughly enjoyed this book This was one of a series of books about a sleuth who solves mysteries But what makes this special is that the sleuth is a free man of color living in New Orleans in the 1830's He's a trained doctor but can't find that type of work so he plays
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