![]() ![]() Solving Jenny’s murder falls to the exotic dancer Blanche Beunon, who performs at the House of Mirrors when not leaving male customers winded on hotel sheets. ![]() So begins the historical tour de force Frog Music, a lyrical, ribald, meticulously researched fictionalization of Bonnet’s unsolved murder in the summer of 1876 outside of San Francisco, a city roiling under the double-whammy of a sweltering heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. A burlesque dancer undresses for bed while singing a French lullaby to her faraway baby, unaware that the thunderclaps she thinks she hears are actually gunshots that have killed her travelling companion, a cross-dressing, law-breaking, female frog catcher known to all as Jenny Bonnet. ![]()
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