A Free Man of Color
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. With the authorities reluctant to become involved, Ben begins his own inquiry, which will take him through the seamy haunts of riverboatmen and into the huts of voodoo-worshipping slaves. But soo…
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- ISBN: 978-0-553-57526-2
- EAN: 9780553575262
- Produktnummer: 9191371
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Masse: H17.5 cm x B10.7 cm x D2.5 cm 231 g
- Reihenbandnummer: 01
- Gewicht: 231
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Barbara Hambly is the author of Patriot Hearts and The Emancipator's Wife, a finalist for the Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction. She is also the author of Fever Season, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and the acclaimed historical Benjamin January series, including the novels A Free Man of Color and Sold Down the River. She lives in California.
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