Hannibal is one of the few white people willing to socialize with people of color. He has tuberculosis, and is addicted to alcohol and laudanum, though he eventually manages to break both habits. Since faking his death, Hannibal has lived in poverty.
Alec (Hannibal) had faked his death in Paris and moved to New Orleans, stating that his wife, Philippa, would be "a better custodian of Foxford Priory than an opium-swilling fiddle player".
In Dead and Buried, it is revealed that Hannibal's birth name is Alexander Stuart, and that he could, if he wanted, lay claim to the Foxford estate, as Viscount (or Lord, both titles appear in the book) Foxford, the title currently belonging to his son, Germanicus ("Gerry") Stuart, Lord Foxford. He is Anglo-Irish, was educated at Oxford and plays a "hundred guinea violin" ("Graveyard Dust"). Hannibal Sefton Benjamin's friend and fellow musician (a violin player). She is close friends with both Benjamin and Hannibal, and eventually marries Benjamin. But Rose was more interested in learning, particularly natural sciences, and eventually managed to secure an education and establish herself as a schoolteacher, in order to assist other free colored girls. Rose Vitrac The mixed-race daughter of a placée, whose mother had raised her to become a placée in turn. He lived in France for many years, but returned to New Orleans when his first wife, Ayasha, an Algerian woman, died of cholera. He is very tall, and very dark-skinned, which is a significant impediment to his medical career in pre– Civil War New Orleans. He trained in Paris as a surgeon, but works primarily as a piano player and teacher.
Major recurring characters Benjamin January Former slave, freed as a child by his placée mother's lover. Seven books in the series ( Fever Season, Dead Water, The Shirt on His Back, Ran Away, Good Man Friday, Crimson Angel, and Drinking Gourd ) have received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly. The second book in the series, Fever Season, was named a New York Times Notable Mystery Book of 1998. The first eight books in the series were published by Bantam Press, the subsequent ten were published by Severn House Publishers. The first book, A Free Man of Color, was published in 1997, and the series is still on-going. The Benjamin January mysteries are set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place. The series is named after the main character of the books. The Benjamin January mysteries is a series of historical murder mystery novels by Barbara Hambly. Olympe "Olympia Snakebones" Corbier (sister)
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