![]() As such, Frog Music is a mystery novel on many levels-every character is riddled with secrets and Blanche is intent on uncovering them all, which she does, revealing layer after complex layer. As Blanche races around the city, desperate for clues, searching for answers, she uncovers innumerable secrets and begins to unfold the riddle of Jenny’s past. The guilt-ridden and confused Blanche spends the next three days in a frenzy, attempting to bring Jenny’s murderer to justice and risking her whole life to do so. This is the summer of 1876, San Francisco-a record-breaking heat wave grips the city, a smallpox epidemic rages, cultural clashes and raging stereotypes abound. ![]() Jenny Bonnet, frog-catching, cross-dressing, loveable misfit, meets an untimely demise in the first scene Blanche Beunon, her new friend, is bent over unlacing her gaiter at the time the mysterious shots shatter the window and pierce Jenny’s body. Frog Music opens with a song-fitting, given this music-filled narrative-and a murder. ![]()
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