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Summer of 1876: SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA is in the fierce grip of an record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. From the window of an railroad saloon, a young woman known as Jenny Bonnet is taken dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over another three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice - if he doesn't observe her down first. The storyplot Blanche battles to patch together is one of free-love bohemians, anxious paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and destroyed children. It is the hidden knowledge life of Jenny herself, a notorious personality who breaks regulations every morning by getting dressed up: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved criminal offenses. Full of tracks that migrated around the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes catches the pulse of an boomtown like no other.
