Ran Away
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RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for the true culprit, endangering his own life in the process . . .
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Barbara Hambly. (2012). Ran Away. Severn House.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Barbara Hambly. 2012. Ran Away. Severn House.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Barbara Hambly, Ran Away. Severn House, 2012.
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RAN AWAY. So began a score of advertisements every week in the New Orleans newspapers, advertising for slaves who'd fled their masters. But the Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, posted no such advertisement when his two lovely concubines disappeared. And when a witness proclaimed he'd seen the 'devilish infidel' hurl their dead bodies out of a window, everyone was willing to believe him the murderer. Only Benjamin January, who knows the Turk of old, is willing to seek for the true culprit, endangering his own life in the process . . . - seriesId
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Starred review from November 21, 2011
At the outset of Hambly’s stellar 11th whodunit set in antebellum New Orleans (after 2011’s The Shirt on His Back), a witness declares he saw a wealthy “infidel” Turk hurl two dead concubines from his attic window, but free black Benjamin January knew that Turk, Hüseyin Pasha, 10 years earlier in Paris, where January lived with his adored first wife, Ayasha, for a compassionate human being incapable of such a murder. In financially strapped New Orleans of 1837, unscrupulous Americans who prevent their slaves from learning to read and hypocritical religious charlatans prey on the defenseless, while January risks his own life and his family’s in defending the Turk and his household and providing a station for escaping slaves on the underground railway. Hambly matches her moving portrayals of society’s underdogs with thrilling escapes, bittersweet insights into love and loss, and vignettes of New Orleans’ voodoo priestesses. Agent: Frances Collin Literary Agency.
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Concubines, slaves and first-wife blues upset free man of color Benjamin January. During the years he fled New Orleans to escape its racism, Ben settled in Paris, where he eked out a living as a musician while studying medicine. He met, fell in love with and married Ayasha, who asked him to help out Shamira, a sick, pregnant concubine in the household of Hüseyin Pasha, a wealthy Turk. Shamira ran away, and January and Ayasha became involved in her plight, which centered on the enmity between Pasha and Sabid, a former favorite of the Sultan, now a disgraced man. When Ayasha was abducted and Shamira's fate necessitated exchanging her infant son for her freedom, Ben came to believe Pasha honorable and trustworthy. That's why five years on, back home in New Orleans after Ayasha's death from cholera, Ben disputes the findings that declare that Pasha, now underwriting failing banks in Louisiana, tossed two of his concubines, Noura and Karida, from a window in his house. With an assist from his current wife Rose and his friend, ex-opium addict Hannibal, Ben steps in to prove Pasha innocent of murder. He'll have to deal with another opium addict, a Mr. Smith whom no one but Pasha seems to have met, a sighting of Pasha's old enemy Sabid, as well as two battling Reverends and slaves transported on the underground railway before matters are resolved. More complicated than most January tales (The Shirt on His Back, 2011, etc.). More poignant, too, with memories of Ayasha tormenting January.(COPYRIGHT (2011) KIRKUS REVIEWS/NIELSEN BUSINESS MEDIA, INC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.)
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Travel further into freed slave Benjamin January's (The Shirt on His Back) past as he recalls 1827 Paris. His memories are critical to saving the life and reputation of an old Turkish ally a decade later in New Orleans. [See Prepub Alert, 8/2/11.]
Copyright 2012 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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Starred review from December 15, 2011
The prolific Hambly returns to her popular Benjamin January series with a tale that jumps from New Orleans in the late 1830s, with free man of color Januarya musician, surgeon, and Underground Railroad conducternavigating between the French, American, free black, and slave communities, and back to Paris, 10 years earlier, when he was married to Ayasha, his first wife. Connecting the two time frames is January's friend, Hseyin Pasah, known as The Turk, who is believed to have strangled his two concubines and thrown the bodies out a window. January isn't buying that. He knows the Turk from their time together in Paris and doesn't believe he would harm the women. Investigating the case, January treads a thin line, as always, knowing that his freedom and that of his present wife, Rose, and their baby son could so easily be taken away. Who would vouch for January as a free black if he was caught by a white slave trader in the wrong part of town? Hambly seamlessly combines two mysteries here, the one in the Paris backstory, which has January and the Turk searching for one of the concubines, and the one in the present involving the attempt to clear the Turk of the concubines' deaths. The touching portrait of January's love for his two very different wives as well as the incredible period detail and rich atmosphere make this stand out among historical mysteries. Suggest it to readers who also enjoy Jason Goodwin's Investigator Yashim series.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)
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