Frog music : a novel
Donoghue, Emma , 1969-
Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue - First Edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Company , 2014 - 405 p. ; 25 cm
Emma Donoghue's 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. 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.
9780316324687
2014000840
Women dancers----Fiction
Murder investigation----Fiction
San Francisco (CA)----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR6054.O547 / F76 2014
FIC DON
Frog music : a novel / Emma Donoghue - First Edition. - New York : Little, Brown and Company , 2014 - 405 p. ; 25 cm
Emma Donoghue's 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. 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.
9780316324687
2014000840
Women dancers----Fiction
Murder investigation----Fiction
San Francisco (CA)----Fiction
Historical fiction
PR6054.O547 / F76 2014
FIC DON
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