Benjamin January mysteries
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A free man of color , Benjamin January mysteries volume 1
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Fever season , Benjamin January mysteries volume 2
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Graveyard dust , Benjamin January mysteries volume 3
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Sold down the river , Benjamin January mysteries volume 4
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Die upon a kiss , Benjamin January mysteries volume 5
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6) Wet grave
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 6
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Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Days of the dead , Benjamin January mysteries volume 7
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Dead water , Benjamin January mysteries volume 8
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Dead and buried , Benjamin January mysteries volume 9
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The shirt on his back , Benjamin January mysteries volume 10
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11) Ran Away
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 11
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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The new Benjamin January novel from the best-selling author
RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe...
RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe...
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Good man Friday , Benjamin January mysteries volume 12
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Crimson angel , Benjamin January mysteries volume 13
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Drinking gourd , Benjamin January mysteries volume 14
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15) Murder in July
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 15
Publisher
Severn House Publishers, Ltd
Pub. Date
©2017.
Language
English
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"When British spymaster Sir John Oldmixton offers Benjamin January a hundred dollars to find the murderer of an Englishman whose body has been found floating in the New Basin Canal, Benjamin turns him down immediately. As a free man of colour in New Orleans in the sweltering July of 1839, he knows this is not something he should get mixed up in. But when clues to the dead man's identity link the death to another murder, in another July in January's...
16) Cold bayou
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 16
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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"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...
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 17
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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...
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"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...
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Benjamin January mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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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...
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Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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December 1840. Surgeon turned piano-player Benjamin January is looking forward to a peaceful holiday with his family. But the arrival of an old friend brings unexpected news - and unexpected danger. Persephone Jondrette has found Arithmus: a Sudanese man with extraordinary mental abilities who January last saw in France, nearly fifteen years ago, during a ghost-hunting expedition to a haunted chateau. January and his friends survived the experience...