by Barbara Hambly (Author)
Benjamin January, 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.
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Pages: 432
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Bantam Books
Published: Jul 1998
ISBN 10: 0553575260
ISBN 13: 9780553575262
A sparkling gem. --King Features Syndicate
An astonishing tour de force. --Margaret Maron
Superb. --Drood Review of Mystery
A darned good murder mystery. --USA Today