{"product_id":"a-murder-in-passing-a-sam-blackman-mystery-9781464201509","title":"A Murder in Passing: A Sam Blackman Mystery","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"This fascinating mystery, merging past and present, brings some little-known history to light and shows that laws change much faster than attitudes...\" --\u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThings are slow at the Blackman \u0026amp; Robertson Detective Agency. So when Nakayla Robertson suggests a mushroom hunt at the historic, freed-slave commune The Kingdom of the Happy Land, Sam Blackman reluctantly agrees. Hunting the elusive edible, he stumbles into a rotting log...with a skeleton hidden inside. He's intrigued, but local authorities tell him to butt out.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Marsha Montgomery comes to Asheville asking Sam and Nakayla to investigate a 45-year-old burglary at her mother's home. Someone stole a rifle and a photograph taken in 1932 at The Kingdom of the Happy Land. Is this just a coincidence?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen Marsha's 85-year-old mother Lucille is arrested for murder, and Sam knows something is amiss. Is the skeleton that of Jimmy Lang, Lucille's lover and Martha's father, a white man who disappeared in 1967? A veil of betrayal and deceit hides a killer desperate to protect a dark secret, and not even Sam is safe from the deadly consequences of a murder in passing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sourcebooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781464201509\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 396\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.11lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.89d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLarge Print\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Mark de Castrique","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53578309697717,"sku":"9781464201509","price":19.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/9781464201509.jpg?v=1792609084","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/a-murder-in-passing-a-sam-blackman-mystery-9781464201509","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}