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Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
When the body of a mysterious Englishman is found floating in New Orleans New Basin Canal, Benjamin January uncovers a link to another unsolved murder in Paris nine years before. Now he must unravel the earlier murder in order to solve this second killing. At stake are the lives of his wife, son and unborn child.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
New Orleans, 1840. Benjamin January has little use for politicians, but when a giant rally is planned to stir up support for the Whig presidential candidate, he finds himself intrigued. Trouble is brewing though, both political and romantic, and soon January finds himself investigating a murder ... with an innocent woman's life on the line.
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves...
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Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"New Orleans, 1839. Despite his misgivings, Benjamin January has agreed to play the piano at the wedding of wealthy French Creole landowner Veryl St-Chinian. All is not well, for the marriage of 67-year-old, profoundly infatuated Uncle Veryl to an 18-year-old Irish tavern-slut spells potential disaster for everyone in the inter-married Viellard and St-Chinian clans. But the old man is determined to marry Miss Ellie Trask, and nothing will stand in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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''A cursed statue . . . A haunted house . . . A seemingly supernatural death . . . The unexpected arrival of a friend from his past plunges musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January into an old, unsolved case in this historical mystery set in New Orleans "Outstanding . . . fastidious period detail, and a consistently surprising investigation" Publishers Weekly Starred Review. December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January...
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