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Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
May, 1924. When renowned film director Ernst Zapolya calls Emma Blackstone - companion to Hollywood movie star Kitty Flint - and demands to see Kitty at once, Emma's not surprised. Until, that is, he adds that lives depend on it. Emma and Kitty investigate, and after a shocking discovery, the lives on the line soon include their own...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"New Orleans, 1840. Freshly home from a dangerous journey, the last thing Benjamin January wants to do is leave his wife and young sons again. But when old friends Henri and Chloe Viellard ask for his help tracking down a missing girl in distant New York, he can't say no. Three weeks ago, seventeen-year-old Eve Russell boarded a steam-boat and never got off it. Mrs. Russell is adamant Eve's been kidnapped, but how could someone remove a teenager from...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Severn House Publishers LTD
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Benjamin January is called up to Vicksburg, deep in cotton-plantation country, to help a wounded 'conductor' of the Underground Railroad - the secret network of safe-houses that guide escaping slaves to freedom. When the chief 'conductor' of the 'station' is found murdered, Jubal Cain - the coordinator of the whole Railroad system in Mississippi - is accused of the crime. Since Cain can't expose the nature of his involvement in the railroad, January...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Bantam Books
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 mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
In such stunning novels of crime and character as Die Upon a Kiss, Sold Down the River, and A Free Man of Color, Benjamin January tracked down killers through the sensuous, atmospheric, dangerously beautiful world of Old New Orleans. Now, in this new novel by bestselling author Barbara Hambly, he follows a trail of murder from illicit back alleys to glittering mansions to a dark place where the oldest and deadliest secrets lie buried...
It's 1835...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Mexico City in the autumn of 1835 is a lawless place, teeming with bandits and beggars. But an urgent letter from a desperate friend draws Benjamin January and his new bride Rose from New Orleans to this newly free province. Here they pray they'll find Hannibal Sefton alive-and not hanging from the end of a rope. Sefton stands accused of murdering the only son of prominent landowner Don Prospero de Castellón. But when Benjamin and Rose arrive at...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author Barbara Hambly's A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery's most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel, a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans, where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened corner.
It is St. John's Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January-Creole physician and music teacher-is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Musician, sleuth and free man of color Benjamin January gets mixed in politics, with murderous results. September, 1840. A giant rally is being planned in New Orleans to stir up support for presidential candidate William Henry Harrison: the Indian-killing, hard-cider-drinking, wannabe "people's president". Trained surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January has little use for politicians. But the run-up to the rally is packed with balls and dinner...
9) Dead water
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife Rose have founded.
Following the suspected embezzler...
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"April, 1840. Benjamin January knows no black person in their right mind would willingly go to the Republic of Texas but when his former pupil Selina Bellinger is kidnapped and enslaved, he has no choice. Once there he is saved from being hanged by Valentina Taggart, wife of the wealthy landowner of Rancho Perdition. After Valentina is accused of the murder of her husband, she in turn calls on Benjamin for help. To do so, he must abandon the safe...
13) A marked man
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Abigail Adams, wife of attorney John Adams (who is deeply involved with the Sons of Liberty) is shocked when one of the Sons is accused of murder. As she pursues the truth behind the man's murder, the killer pursues her--threatening not only Abigail but her vulnerable family.
14) Crimson angel
Author
Series
Benjamin January mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When his brother-in-law is murdered while searching for a family treasure, Benjamin January is forced to travel to rebellion-torn Haiti of 1838.
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