Black duck
By: Janet Taylor Lisle
Edition: Sleuth ed.
Publisher: Sleuth/Puffin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780142409022
Subjects: Gangsters; Adventure stories; Juvenile fiction; Friendship; Prohibition; History
Description: Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.