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Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 1
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A lush and haunting novel of a city steeped in decadent pleasures...and of a man, proud and defiant, caught in a web of murder and betrayal. It is 1833. In the midst of Mardi Gras, Benjamin January, a Creole physician and music teacher, is playing piano at the Salle d'Orleans when the evenings festivities are interrupted--by murder. Ravishing Angelique Crozat, a notorious octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, has been strangled to death....
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 9
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
When an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin at his friend's funeral, free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January is the only one to know the identity of the dead white man--one of his closest friends, fiddle-player Hannibal Sefton.
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 5
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In February 1835, the cold New Orleans streets are alight with masked Mardi Gras revelers as the American Theaters impresario, Lorenzo Belaggio, brings a magnificent yet controversial operatic version of Othello to town. But its pitch-black in the alley where free man of color Benjamin January hears a slurred whisper, spies the flash of a knife, and is himself wounded as he rescues Belaggio from a vicious attack. Could competition...
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 4
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Penetrating the murkiest corners of glittering New Orleans society, Benjamin January brought murderers to justice in A Free Man of Color, Fever Season, and Graveyard Dust. Now, in Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he risks his life in a violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....When slave owner Simon Fourchet asks Benjamin January to investigate sabotage, arson, and murder on his plantation, January is reluctant to do any favors...
5) Wet grave
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 6
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
It's 1835 and the relentless glare of the late July sun has slowed New Orleans to a standstill. When Hesione LeGros--once a corsair's jeweled mistress, now a raddled hag--is found slashed to death in a shanty on the fringe of New Orleans's most lawless quarter, there are few to care. But one of them is Benjamin January, musician and teacher. He well recalls her blazing ebony beauty when she appeared, exquisitely gowned and handy with a stiletto, at...
6) Fever season
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 2
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
The summer of 1833 has been one of brazen heat and brutal pestilence, as the city is stalked by Bronze John - the popular name for the deadly cholera epidemic that tests the healing skills of doctor and voodoo alike. Benjamin January's Paris medical training keeps him all night long with the dying at Charity Hospital. Then his work as a music teacher takes him out again into the fetid, empty midday streets. Empty except for Cora Chouteau, a dark-skinned...
7) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January volume 8
Publisher
Bantam
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder.
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