A Free Man of Color (Benjamin January Book 1)

About this book

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 citys 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.