Donoghue, Emma 1969- creator author. text bibliography Historical fiction. nyu 2014 First Edition. monographic eng

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405 pages ; 25 cm "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"-- Emma Donoghue. Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-398). Women dancers Fiction Murder Investigation Fiction FICTION / Crime FICTION / Family Life FICTION / General FICTION / Historical FICTION / Literary San Francisco (Calif.) 19th century Fiction PR6054.O547 F76 2014 823 DON FIC050000 FIC045000 FIC000000 FIC014000 FIC019000 9781447249771 (hardback) 2014000840 DLC 140114 20200109165512.0 17997430 eng