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100 1 $aDonoghue, Emma,$d1969-
245 10$aFrog music :$ba novel /$cEmma Donoghue.
260 $aNew York :$bLittle, Brown and Company,$c2014.
300 $a405 p. ;$c25 cm.
505 0 $aDarlin' -- I have got the blues -- There's the city -- Somebody's watching -- "Vive le Rose" -- I hardly knew ye -- Bang away -- When the train comes along.
520 $aThis novel is based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice, if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. As the story digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime, its tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown in 19th century California. -- Provided by publisher.
650 0$aWomen dancers$vFiction.
650 0$aMurder$xInvestigation$vFiction.
651 0$aSan Francisco (Calif.)$y19th century$vFiction.
655 0$aHistorical fiction.$2gsafd.