Best Selling Books by Barbara Hambly

In one book, a collection of tales that include the sequel to The Sign of Four, a visit to the lost world of Professor Challenger, tales of adventures when Holmes teams up with Arsene Lupin, Lawrence of Arabia, Calamity Jane, Sexton Blake, Harry Houdini, The Thinking Machine, Dr. Thorndyke, Aleister Crowley, Colonel Savage.

Bestselling author Barbara Hambly''s A Free Man of Color and Fever Season established Benjamin January as one of mystery''s most exciting heroes. Now he returns in a powerful new novel, a sensual mosaic of old New Orleans, where cultures clash and murder can hover around every darkened corner.... It is St. John''s Eve in the summer of 1834 when Benjamin January—Creole physician and music teacher—is shattered by the news that his sister has been arrested for murder. The Guards have only a shadow of a case against her. But Olympe—mystical and rebellious—is a woman of color, whose chance for justice is slim. As Benjamin probes the allegation, he is targeted by a new threat: graveyard dust sprinkled at his door, whispering of a voodoo death curse. Now, to save Olympe''s life—and his own—Benjamin knows he must glean information wherever he can find it. For in the heavy darkness of New Orleans, the truth is what you make it, and justice can disappear with the night''s warm breeze as easy as graveyard dust....

Young Roman philosopher Marcus Silanus searches for his kidnapped sweetheart, believing that she is being held captive by a bizarre religious cult known as Christians

In ancient Rome a young philosopher C. Marcus Silanus searches for his kidnapped sweetheart, believing that she is being held by a terrifying religious cult known as Christians

This is a fine collection of stories centered around the idea of the female vampire--in the many roles that women occupy in our society.

A novelette of 10,000 words, sequel to Hambly''s Darwath series. The Keep of Dare is an enclosed fortress: no one knows all its secrets and corners. When people start disappearing, the Archmage Ingold Inglorion and his two Californian companions - warrior Gil Patterson and novice wizard Rudy Solis - are faced with the possibility that some deadly entity is hiding in the darkness of the Keep. And the situation is not improved when Ingold himself disappears.

A novelette of 14,000 words, sequel to Hambly''s Darwath series. The teleporter is due to open between the Keep of Dare and an unknown Keep, lost for three thousand years - and Archmage Ingold Inglorion is snowed in fifty miles away and unable to be there to deal with whatever might be on the other side of that teleporter. California warrior-woman Gil Patterson, and California mage-in-training Rudy Solis, have to explore the unknown Keep on their own: to interpret its secrets, to prevent whatever might lurk there from following them back to the last Keep of humankind... and to destroy it when, in spite of their efforts, it does.

A novelette of 15,000 words, sequel to Hambly''s Sun Wolf and Starhawk novels. Former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf re-visits the ruined fortress of the Wizard-King, hoping to find the books of magic that the dead sorcerer hoarded. He finds, instead, that a) the defenses and curses that Wizard-King set on his fortress are still very much active and b) there are other mages, as inexperienced as himself, in quest of those books: mages who will stop at nothing to get to them first.

Sequel to the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series. In his quest for a wizard to teach him to use his powers, ex-mercenary captain Sun Wolf thinks he may have finally found one. Unfortunately, it looks like that wizard, whoever it is, has summoned a dragon to destroy an innocent town - and it''s the second dragon to afflict the town in two years. Yet the only wizard in the town itself is an untaught - and very pretty - little hedge-witch who sells perfumes and illusions, leaving Sun Wolf and his warrior partner Starhawk to hunt for the greater and more dangerous mage unaided.

A novelette of 10,000 words, sequel to the Sun Wolf and Starhawk series. When the lovely Mira visits the hermitage of the local wizard, the former barbarian mercenary Sun Wolf, to beg his help in rescuing her sweetheart from a traveling mage, Sun Wolf suspects that this is a trap set for him. In his duel with the enemy wizard, Sun Wolf is not only ignorant of how much magical technique his opponent knows, but is fairly certain that if he, Sun Wolf, uses magic at all, his own soul will be enslaved.

The Rainbow Abyss--The Magicians of Night.

A novelette of 12,000 words, sequel to Hambly''s Dragonsbane (Winterlands) series. When a visiting wizard calls at Alyn Hold with the news that the region is about to be attacked by a horrible monster, John Aversin, Dragonsbane and Thane of the Winterlands, and his wizardly partner Jenny Waynest, are much less upset than the Silver Mage thinks they should be. The Silver Mage demands that the whole countryside turn out to kill the Kraken once and for all; John points out that it would involve far fewer casualties if everyone simply moves out of its way for the three days (out of a hundred and fifty years) during which it comes ashore, easily determined by the behavior of the matriarch pig Damselblossom. When the Silver Mage insists upon a showdown, John begins to suspect his motives.

The adventures of a female British archaeologist in the Middle East in years leading up to the First World War.

The adventures of a female British archaeologist in the Middle East in years leading up to the First World War.

A novelette of 12,000 words in the Benjamin January Free Man of Color historical mystery series. All of New Orleans is agog over Professor Tixall''s telescope, which can reportedly see life on the Moon. Rose Janvier is convinced that it''s a hoax, and a harmless one (though profitable for Professor Tixall), until one of her servants, looking through the telescope after hours, sees one of the "bat-people" of the Moon murder another one. Rose knows that murder has been done, but how do you prove it when the events supposedly took place on another planet?