02505cam a2200433 i 4500 5405 5405 17997430 OSt 20200109165512.0 140114s2014 nyu b 000 1 eng 2014000840 9781447249771 (hardback) DLC eng DLC rda pcc PR6054.O547 F76 2014 823 DON 23 FIC050000 FIC045000 FIC000000 FIC014000 FIC019000 bisacsh Donoghue, Emma, 1969- author. Frog music / Emma Donoghue. First Edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 405 pages ; 25 cm text rdacontent unmediated rdamedia volume rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398). "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice--if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, FROG MUSIC digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other"-- Provided by publisher. Women dancers Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. FICTION / Crime. bisacsh FICTION / Family Life. bisacsh FICTION / General. bisacsh FICTION / Historical. bisacsh FICTION / Literary. bisacsh San Francisco (Calif.) 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. gsafd 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc STL 0 0 ddc 0 0 Stack II 124/3 AIISH AIISH 2020-01-09 0 823 DON 19987 2020-01-09 00:00:00 2020-01-09 STL