9780553102581: A Free Man of Color

Synopsis

Set in New Orleans in the 1830s, a historical whodunit follows the struggle of Benjamin January, a Creole musician and a free black man, to clear his name when he becomes a suspect in the murder of an octoroon woman. 70,000 first printing. $70,000 ad/promo.

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uary, a Creole physician and piano teacher who has known the glories of Paris as well as of his native New Orleans, is at the Blue Ribbon Ball during Mardi Gras. Near the ball, Angelique Crozat, an octoroon who travels in the city's finest company, is found murdered--and there is no shortage of suspects. This novel transports the reader to the center of the cosmopolitan South in an age when both its glories and the forces which would tear it apart are equally in evidence.

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9780553575262: A Free Man of Color: 1 (Benjamin January)

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ISBN 10:  0553575260 ISBN 13:  9780553575262
Publisher: Random House USA Inc, 1998
Softcover