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• Series Title:
• A Nick Travers Graphic Novel
• Annotation:
• After a New Orleans college professor goes missing while searching for the rumored lost recordings of bluesman Robert Johnson--who, as legend has it, sold his soul to the devil at a Mississippi crossroads--Nick Travers is sent to find him. Clues point to everyone from an eccentric albino named Cracker to a hitman who believes he is the second coming of Elvis Presley.
• Creator:
• Editor - Keven Gardiner
• Publication Information:
• Image Comics, U.S.A., April 2018
• Color or Black & White:
• 
• Genre:
• Historical Fiction
• Bibliography Available:
• No
• Original Language:
• English
• Historical Topic/Event:
• Johnson, Robert, 1911-1938
• Blues Musicians
• African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc.
• Geographic Setting:
• Mississippi
• Mississippi-Delta Region
• New Orleans (La.). Tulane University
• Date Range:
• 1938 - 1993
• Tags:
• Jim Crow, Robert Johnson, the blues, bluesman, Mississippi Crossroads, Murder Mystery
• Notes:
• Ace Atkins is a Pulitzer prize nominated journalist turned New York Times best-selling author.
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