Hambly, Barbara

Graveyard dust by Barbara Hambly( Book )

15 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and French and held by 1,094 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In 19th century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January tries to clear the name of his sister, a voodoo practitioner. She is accused of supplying the arsenic which a woman used to kill her husband

Sold down the river by Barbara Hambly( Book )

17 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in English and French and held by 1,048 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Benjamin January, a musician in New Orleans, returns to the slavery of Mon Triomphe, Simon Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation, to unravel secrets and sins which have manifested in a mysterious fire, a poisoning, a murder, and voodoo curse marks

Good man Friday by Barbara Hambly( Book )

14 editions published between 2013 and 2014 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,016 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Benjamin January's search for a missing man takes him into a dark world filled with grave robbers and slave stealers. New Orleans, 1838. When Benjamin January suddenly finds that his services playing piano at extravagant balls held by the city's wealthy are no longer required, he ends up agreeing to accompany sugar planter Henri Viellard and his young wife, Chloë, on a mission to Washington to find a missing friend. Plunged into a murky world, it soon becomes clear that while it is very possible the Viellards' friend is dead, his enemies are very much alive - and ready to kill anyone who gets in their way"--Amazon.com

Dead water by Barbara Hambly( Book )

9 editions published between 2004 and 2005 in English and held by 957 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In turbulent nineteenth-century New Orleans, free man of color Benjamin January finds himself on a perilous steamboat ride that becomes an inescapable journey of death and murder

Dead and buried by Barbara Hambly( Book )

12 editions published between 2010 and 2011 in English and held by 940 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When free black musician and surgeon Benjamin January attends the funeral of a friend, an accident tips the dead man out of his coffin--only to reveal an unexpected inhabitant. Set in New Orleans in 1836

The shirt on his back by Barbara Hambly( Book )

13 editions published between 2011 and 2012 in English and held by 939 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Abishag Shaw is seeking vengeance for his brother's murder -- and Benjamin January is seeking money after every bank in the country crashes. Far beyond the frontier, in the depths of the Rocky Mountains, both are to be found at the great Rendezvous of the Mountain Men. And during that month-long orgy of cheap booze, shooting-matches, tall tales and cut-throat trading, something else is found instead: the corpse of a murdered gentleman whom nobody recognizes, clean-shaven, perfumed, and clothed on in a pair of black kid gloves."--Cover

Ran away : a Benjamin January novel by Barbara Hambly( Book )

11 editions published between 2011 and 2013 in English and held by 924 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When a witness claims to have seen Hüseyin Pasha hurl two girls' dead bodies from his attic window on Bourbon Street, everyone in New Orleans is willing to believe the "devilish Infidel" is guilty except Benjamin January. Only Benjamin, driven by memories of his first meeting with the Turk in Paris ten years earlier, is willing to brave public outrage and mob violence to seek for the true culprit

Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly( Book )

37 editions published between 1985 and 2019 in 4 languages and held by 844 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When the Black Dragon seizes the Deep of Ylferdun, John Aversin, the only living man ever to slay a dragon agrees to challenge the dragon, accompanied by Jenny Waynest, a half-taught sorceress and the mother of his sons

Crimson angel by Barbara Hambly( Book )

15 editions published between 2014 and 2015 in English and Undetermined and held by 838 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

When Jefferson Vitrack - the white half-brother of Benjamin January's wife - turns up on January's doorstep in the summer of 1838 claiming he has discovered a clue to the whereabouts of the family's lost treasure, January has no hesitation about refusing to help look for it. For the treasure lies in Haiti, the island that was once France's most profitable colony - until the blood-chilling repression practiced there by the whites upon their slaves triggered a savage rebellion. The world's only Black Republic still looks with murderous mistrust upon any strangers who might set foot there, and January is in no hurry to go. But when Vitrack is murdered, and attempts are made on January's wife and himself, he understands that he has no choice. He must seek the treasure himself, to draw the unknown killers into the open, a bloody trail that leads first to Cuba, then to Haiti, and finally to the secret that lies buried with the accursed gold

Traveling with the dead by Barbara Hambly( Book )

15 editions published between 1995 and 2011 in English and German and held by 835 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Former British secret service agent James Asher squares off with Don Simon Ysidro, oldest and most cunning of London's vampires. A tale of international espionage involving foreign governments in league with vampires. A sequel to Those Who Hunt the Night