Hagar
โ Scribed by Hambly, Barbara
- Book ID
- 109034277
- Publisher
- Barbara Hambly
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 32 KB
- Series
- Benjamin January
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
A novelette of 13,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. Benjamin is out of town again, and his wife Rose attends a party with her obnoxious mother-in-law, at a plantation owned by a free colored relative. When the white mistress of the neighboring plantation is murdered, and the house burned, it seems obvious that one of the household slaves committed the crime - but Rose seeks to prove differently.
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