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The House of Dies Drear
Virginia Hamilton

The House of Dies Drear

Simon & Schuster (Sep 01, 1968)
9780027425000
| Hardcover
256 pages | 147 x 218 mm | English

Genre

  • Kids (12 & Under)
  • Kids: Middle Grade
  • Suspense

Subject

  • African Americans
  • African Americans/ Fiction
  • Mystery And Detective Stories
  • Underground Railroad

Plot

The house held secrets, Thomas knew, even before he first saw it looming gray and massive on its ledge of rock. It had a century-old legend - two fugitive slaves had been killed by bounty hunters after leaving its passageways, and Dies Drear himself, the abolitionist who has made the house into a station on the Underground Railroad, had been murdered there. The ghosts of the three were said to walk its rooms...