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Sold down the River by Barbara Hambly (2000, Hardcover)

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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
ISBN-100553102575
ISBN-139780553102574
eBay Product ID (ePID)1620919

Product Key Features

Book TitleSold Down the River
Number of Pages336 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
TopicAfrican American / General, Thrillers / Suspense, Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorBarbara Hambly
FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight20.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in

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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-054845
Dewey Edition21
ReviewsPraise for the Novels of Barbara Hambly: A Free Man of Color "Magically rich and poignant...  In scene after scene researched in impressive depth and presented in the cool, clear colors of photography, Hambly creates an exotic but recognizable environment for January's search for justice." -Chicago Tribune "A darned good murder mystery." -USA Today Fever Season "A notable writer of mystery fiction...  This one grips the reader from start to finish." -The Washington Times "From the highborn Creoles in their river mansions to the uncivilized Americans brawling on the levee, Hambly speaks all their languages, knows all their secrets, and brings them all to life." -The New York Times Book Review Graveyard Dust "Seductive... Sweeps from lavish balls on elegant river plantations to voodoo rites in Congo Square and savage brawls in mean waterfront dives....  January proves the ideal guide through these treacherous social strata." -The New York Times Book Review "A richly detailed murder mystery with a little bit of voodoo mixed in for flavor. Don't miss this powerful series." -Mystery Lovers Bookshop News "Its emotional authenticity, varied cast and rich historical trappings give the novel power and depth." -Publishers Weekly
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisInA Free Man of Color,Fever Season, andGraveyard Dust, Benjamin January penetrated the murkiest corners of glittering old New Orleans to bring murderers to justice. Now, in bestselling author Barbara Hambly's haunting new novel, he explores a vivid and violent plantation world darker than anything in the city....  Sold Down the River. The crisp autumn air of 1834 awakens the French Town to a new season of balls and operas.  But this November there will be no waltzes played by Benjamin January, no piano lessons for Creole children.  For a shadow has emerged from his past-Simon Fourchet, the savage man to whom he was bound in slavery until the age of seven.  When someone he cannot refuse asks the favor, Benjamin reluctantly agrees to reenter the realm of his childhood on Fourchet's upriver sugar plantation. Abandoning his Parisian French for the African patois of a field hand, Benjamin sets out to uncover who and what lies behind the sinister happenings there.  On All Souls' night, at the dark of the moon, a fire was started in the mill.  A field gang's food has been poisoned and the butler murdered.  And voodoo curse marks appear everywhere.  If the villain cannot be discovered, every slave on Mon Triomphe will be condemned to what passes for justice. Cutting cane from dawn to nightfall, until his bones ache and his musician's hands bleed, Benjamin strives to unlock the riddle.  Are these the omens of a slave revolt, or something more personal?  As acts of sabotage mount and voodoo signs multiply, he ponders the family in the big house:  Fourchet's pale and pious new wife, his two grown sons, and his shrewish daughter-in-law.  Then the inhabitants of the slave quarters: a proud and secretive cook, young lovers torn apart by a brutal overseer, men and women who long for loved ones sold away.  And what of the neighboring planter, feuding with Fourchet over a piece of land...  or the elusive river trader who knows so many of the servants' secrets? Somewhere in the warp and weft of these people's lives lurks Benjamin's quarry-whose scheming could destroy not just Fourchet but all his kin and every human being he owns. And Benjamin January must use all his intelligence and cunning to find the killer, before he finds himself...  Sold Down the River.
LC Classification NumberPS3558.A4215S65 2000

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