![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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. 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. 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 survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman called Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heatwave and a smallpox epidemic. "Emma Donoghue's explosive new novel, based on an unsolved murder in 1876 San Francisco. ![]()
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