02080cam a2200313 i 4500 1164270337 TxAuBib 20140407120000.0 140114s2014||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014000840 9780316324687 $27.00 031632468X $27.00 DLC eng DLC rda NjBwBT GCmBT TxAuBib rda Donoghue, Emma, 1969- Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue. First edition. New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2014. 405 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "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. 20140407. Women dancers Fiction. Murder Investigation Fiction. San Francisco (Calif) History 19th century Fiction. Historical fiction. TXKIP