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A High Wind in Jamaica
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1929
- Pages
- Pages 280
Pirates seize a ship carrying English children home from Jamaica, and the children prove the cold ones: they settle in happily, one girl stabs a bound prisoner, and her testimony back in England hangs the men who kept her alive.
Oh why must she grow up? Why, for pity's sake?
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