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- Title: Good Man Friday
- Author : Barbara Hambly
- Release Date : January 01, 2013
- Genre: Historical,Books,Mysteries & Thrillers,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1309 KB
Description
Free man of color Benjamin January travels to Washington, DC, to track down a missing mathematician in this āexcellentā preāCivil War mystery (Publishers Weekly, starred review).
New Orleans, 1838. Living in antebellum New Orleans as a free man of color, Benjamin January has always taken whatever work he could find. But when he suddenly loses his job playing piano at extravagant parties, he finds himself taking on an entirely newāand exceedingly dangerousāenterprise. Sugar planter Henri Viellard has hired Benjamin to travel with him to Washington, DC. Henriās friend, an elderly English mathematician named Selwyn Singletary, was last seen in Washington before he went missing. With Benjaminās help, Henri intends to track him down.
Plunged into a murky world of spies, slave snatchers, and dirty politicians, Benjamin uncovers a coded secret that he attempts to decipher with the help of a young Edgar Allan Poe. But a powerful ring of conspirators doesnāt want the secret known. And theyāre ready to kill anyone who gets in their way.