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1 online resource (405 pages) |
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Darlin' -- 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. |
| Summary |
Burlesque dancer Blanche Beunon tries to discover who murdered her friend Jenny, who was shot through a window in a railroad saloon in 1876 San Francisco, amidst a record-breaking heatwave and smallpox epidemic. |
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"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. |
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"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. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1899 |
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Women dancers -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.
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Murder -- Investigation. |
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Women dancers. |
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San Francisco (Calif.) -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
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California -- San Francisco. |
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Electronic books. |
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Downloadable e-Books.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Frog music New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014 9780316324687 (DLC) 2014000840 (OCoLC)855905294 |
| ISBN |
9780316295192 : $41.00 |
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0316295191 : $41.00 |
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