The Riverboat Ledger

Name: The Riverboat Ledger
Author: Ken Holm

Created and Curated by Ken Holm

Manaus, 1908. Rubber has made the city rich enough to light its streets with electricity and build an opera house in the jungle. Your grandfather built a fortune on that river, and now he is dead, found in the black water below the floating port. He has left you his steamer, his private ledger, and a debt of three hundred contos that a rubber baron means to collect by São João. Your family is waiting at the quay. One of them knows how he died.

family saga mysteryNewLong read

~191–196 pages · 20 chapters · 3 endings · 3.3T paths

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