Sold Down the River - Hardcover

Hambly, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0553102575 ISBN 13: 9780553102574

Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group, 2000

Synopsis

The fourth novel in the highly acclaimed historical mystery series finds freed slave Simon Fourchet upriver from New Orleans to help his former master investigate a mystery on one of his plantations.

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Review:

"A masterly piece of historical storytelling."
-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Searing."
-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The novel's plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic."
-- "News & Record," Greensboro, NC
"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series.... [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery ... astonishing."
-- "Publishers Weekly"

Don't miss the other books in Barbara Hambly's "remarkable"("The New York Times Book Review") series featuring Benjamin January:
A Free Man of Color
Fever Season
Graveyard Dust
Now available from Bantam Books
And coming soon in hardcover:
Die Upon a Kiss

"A masterly piece of historical storytelling."-- "The New York Times Book Review"
"Searing."-- "Kirkus Reviews"
"The novel's plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic."-- "News & Record," Greensboro, NC
"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series.... [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery ... astonishing."-- "Publishers Weekly"

Don't miss the other books in Barbara Hambly's "remarkable"("The New York Times Book Review") series featuring Benjamin January:
A Free Man of Color
Fever Season
Graveyard Dust
Now available from Bantam Books
And coming soon in hardcover:
Die Upon a Kiss

"A masterly piece of historical storytelling." "The New York Times Book Review"
"Searing." "Kirkus Reviews"
"The novel's plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic." "News & Record," Greensboro, NC
"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series.... [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery ... astonishing." "Publishers Weekly"

Don't miss the other books in Barbara Hambly's "remarkable"("The New York Times Book Review") series featuring Benjamin January:
A Free Man of Color
Fever Season
Graveyard Dust
Now available from Bantam Books
And coming soon in hardcover:
Die Upon a Kiss"

"A masterly piece of historical storytelling."-- The New York Times Book Review

"Searing."-- Kirkus Reviews

"The novel's plot is filled with brilliant twists and Hambly writes with inspired magic."-- News & Record, Greensboro, NC

"The darkest time in American history comes alive in Hambly's unforgettable series.... [A] fiercely burning picture of the horrors of slavery ... astonishing."-- Publishers Weekly

Don't miss the other books in Barbara Hambly's "remarkable"(The New York Times Book Review) series featuring Benjamin January:

A Free Man of Color
Fever Season
Graveyard Dust

Now available from Bantam Books

And coming soon in hardcover:

Die Upon a Kiss

About the Author:

Barbara Hambly attended the University of California and spent a year at the University of Bordeaux, France, obtaining a master's degree in medieval history.  She has worked as both a teacher and a technical editor, but her first love has always been history.  Ms. Hambly lives in Los Angeles with two Pekingese, a cat, and another writer.  She is at work on the fifth Benjamin January novel, Die Upon a Kiss.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bantam Dell Pub Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0553102575
• ISBN 13: 9780553102574
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 317