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Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2000] 2000]
Language
English
Description
Benjamin January, a musician in New Orleans, returns to the slavery of Mon Triomphe, Simon Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation, to unravel secrets and sins which have manifested in a mysterious fire, a poisoning, a murder, and voodoo curse marks.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2001] 2001]
Language
English
Description
In 1835 New Orleans, Benjamin January, a free man of color, becomes caught up in a deadly plot when he rescues opera impresario Lorenzo Belaggio, who has brought a production of the opera "Othello" to town, from a violent attack.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
Description
A historical mystery in 1830s New Orleans whose protagonist is a free man of color. Dr. Benjamin January, back in America after 15 years in Paris where he became a surgeon, goes to the help of a woman. In revenge, he is framed by her enemies for murder and must clear his name. A look at the complicated race relations of the period in New Orleans.
4) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2004] 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.
5) Wet grave
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[[2002] 2002]
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...
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