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259:, it is revealed that Hannibal's birth name is Alexander Stuart, and that he could, if he wanted, lay claim to the Foxford estate, as Viscount (or Lord, both titles appear in the book) Foxford, the title currently belonging to his son, Germanicus ("Gerry") Stuart, Lord Foxford. Alec (Hannibal) had faked his death in Paris and moved to New Orleans, stating that his wife, Philippa, would be "a better custodian of Foxford Priory than an opium-swilling fiddle player". Since faking his death, Hannibal has lived in poverty. He has 878:. January was born a slave but freed as a young child and provided with an excellent education; he is fluent in several classical and modern languages and thoroughly versed in the whole of classical Western learning and arts. Although trained in Paris as a surgeon, he has returned to Louisiana to escape the memory of his dead Parisian wife. As he is a very dark-skinned black man, he cannot find work as a surgeon in Louisiana. Instead, he earns a modest living as a musician. 926:
to modern readers), 3) January's bitterness at the many forms of racial injustice he observes, 4) the complex, partially race-based sexual politics of colonial French society, and 5) January's ongoing attempts to balance the primal, open, and frank African outlook acquired in his early childhood with the more restrained and rational European worldview he now holds. This last theme occurs most often with respect to music, spirituality, and respect for law and social custom.
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holdings. When the bride's maid is murdered in what may have been an attempt on the bride's life, Benjamin sets out to investigate. The stakes are raised when it's revealed that the bride holds the papers to a long-ago debt from Simon Fourchet, Benjamin's former owner, meaning Ben, his mother, siblings, and children may all still be legally slaves.
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When an Englishman is found dead in New Orleans, the British consul – who met Benjamin during his visit to Washington, D.C. – offers Benjamin a reward to solve the case. Benjamin is at first reluctant to get involved, but as matters complicate, he realizes that this murder is connected to another one
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A former Turkish ambassador moves to New Orleans, but is the first suspect when two of his concubines are murdered. Nearly half the book takes place in a flashback to Paris, 1827, where Benjamin had previously met the Turk. Benjamin's relationship with his first wife, Ayasha, is described in greater
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Important themes running throughout the series are 1) the cultural clash between the rising Protestant English-speaking Anglo-Americans on the one hand and the declining Catholic, French-speaking Creoles on the other, 2) the extreme regard of Creole society for "how" colored a person is (quite alien
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An opera troupe, composed mostly of Italians, arrives in New Orleans. Benjamin and Hannibal are hired to play in the orchestra. However, after the director and several other members of the troupe are attacked, Benjamin investigates the cause, which he suspects is related to an attempt to censor the
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The white planter who formerly owned Benjamin and his family asks Benjamin to determine the source of a series of violent incidents on his plantation. Benjamin agrees, but must go undercover as a slave, taking along Hannibal to serve as his master. The ruse places Benjamin in a great deal of danger,
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epidemic, Benjamin deals with a runaway slave girl, Cora, who is wanted for poisoning her master, Otis Redfern. He also meets Rose, the head-mistress of a school for free colored girls, when he helps to treat several of the students who have yellow fever. The kidnapping of free blacks to sell them
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In Mexico City, Hannibal has been accused of poisoning the son of a prominent local landowner. Benjamin and Rose, at his request, come to find the true murderer amid a complicated tangle of relationships and suspects, and to rescue Hannibal both from execution and from captivity by a rich madman.
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A great deal of money has been embezzled from the bank where Benjamin and Rose keep their money. To prevent the bank's collapse, and thus save Rose's school for colored girls, Benjamin, Rose, and Hannibal follow the embezzler onto a steamboat to recover the stolen money. The embezzler's murder
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Rose's white half-brother is murdered in a plot to recover the Vitrac family's long-lost treasure (as well as secrets hidden with the money) from their former sugar plantation on Haiti. After an attempt on Rose's life, she and Benjamin retreat to the countryside of southern Louisiana. When the
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A white policeman, originally from Kentucky, who is significantly smarter and better educated than he pretends to be. Unlike many of the other policemen, Shaw is interested in true justice and has often proved sympathetic to Benjamin's concerns. He does not appear to support the institution of
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A friend of Benjamin and Rose, the elderly Veryl St-Chinian, has engaged himself to an eighteen-year-old illiterate former prostitute. The rich St-Chinian family is outraged at the thought of the upcoming marriage, particularly as it would give the bride financial control of the family's vast
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in turn. But Rose was more interested in learning, particularly natural sciences, and eventually managed to secure an education and establish herself as a schoolteacher, in order to assist other free colored girls. She is close friends with both Benjamin and Hannibal, and eventually marries
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named Angelique as he is the last known person to see her alive. Benjamin struggles to find the real killer before he is jailed and executed for the murder. He also tries to help the widow of Angelique's former protector, a white woman who may have had her own reasons for wanting Angelique
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Benjamin's sister Olympe is accused of murder and Benjamin must find the real killer in order to prevent her execution. Olympe's role as a voodoo practitioner is used against her to raise suspicion, and voodoo plays an important part in the mystery.
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The aging former placée of a pirate is killed under mysterious circumstances. Benjamin and Rose find themselves caught up in the workings of someone else's plot, on the run in the bayous and marshes. Historical events involving pirates, including
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A friend of Chloe and Henri Viellard disappears while traveling in Washington DC. Chloe, Henri, Dominique, and Benjamin go to the capital to investigate, becoming involved in subplots with early baseball, slave-stealers, mathematical codes, and
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At a friend's funeral, Benjamin discovers a different body in the coffin— that of a white man that Hannibal recognizes. Hannibal's history, which he has long kept a secret, proves relevant to the mystery. The issue of
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Henri's fiancée, later his wife; a young heiress who controls her own property. Chloe likes Dominique and accepts her place with Henri, feeling that they both have a role in his life.
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Former student of Benjamin's, abused by her late husband, Arnaud Trepagier. Marries Augustus Mayerling at the end of the first book. Both characters recur throughout the series.
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appears for the first time in the series, and Benjamin agrees to join, offering his home as a safe house. This will form a background detail in many of the subsequent novels.
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Lieutenant Shaw's younger brother was murdered while working in a fur trading company in the Rocky Mountains. Shaw, Benjamin, and a newly-sober Hannibal travel to a
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Each title is an entertaining murder mystery with a complex plot and well-developed characters, and each explores many aspects of
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during the 1830s and 1840s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place. The first book,
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killers follow them there, Rose, Benjamin, and Hannibal head to Cuba to investigate before eventually reaching Haiti itself.
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player and teacher. He is very tall, and very dark-skinned, which is a significant impediment to his medical career in pre–
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practitioner, as well as a wife and mother. Both she and Benjamin were fathered by a slave before their mother became a
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Newly arrived in New Orleans after spending most of his adult life in Paris, Benjamin is accused of the murder of a
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Benjamin's younger mixed-race half-sister, the daughter of his mother and her white protector. Dominique is the
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was published in 1997, and the series is still on-going. The first eight books in the series were published by
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society. However, most tend to emphasize some particular element of antebellum Louisiana life, such as
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Dominique's protector and the father of her two children: Charles-Henri (deceased) and Charmian.
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to find the killer. At the end of the book, Rose gives birth to Benjamin's first child, John.
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slavery, though he obeys the customs of black-white interactions, at least in public.
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as a man. She marries Madeleine (Dubonnet) Trepagier at the end of the book "by
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Benjamin's younger sister (older than Dominique). She is a locally prominent
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of a wealthy white gentleman, Henri, with whom she has a daughter, Charmian.
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of the 1830s, when New Orleans had a large and prosperous free colored '
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as well as bringing back unwelcome memories of his childhood as a slave.
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All the short stories are available for download on Hambly's website.
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to reappear. Hannibal is revealed to have knowledge about both cases.
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series consists of nineteen novels and five short stories to date.
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The mother of Benjamin, Olympe, and Dominique. She is a former
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Benjamin and Hannibal take summer jobs working for a traveling
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Series of historical murder mystery novels by Barbara Hambly
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and plays a "hundred guinea violin" ("Graveyard Dust"). In
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Notable Mystery Book of 1998. Seven books in the series (
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protector paid for her freedom and that of her children.
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Fencing master, introduced in the first book, a woman
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Index

Barbara Hambly
historical murder mystery
Barbara Hambly
New Orleans
Bantam Press
Severn House Publishers
New York Times
starred reviews
Publishers Weekly
slave
placée
Paris
surgeon
piano
Civil War
New Orleans
violin
Oxford
tuberculosis
alcohol
laudanum
Voodoo
Lieutenant
passing
Protestant

adding to it
cholera
yellow fever
Delphine LaLaurie

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