Julesburg Public Library

"Emma Donoghue's explosive 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...

When the Scottish dance troupe she once had belonged to arrives in Moosetookalook, Maine, Liss MacCrimmon, throwing a reception in their honor, finds herself among the suspects in the sudden death of the despised company manager, Victor Owens.

A fictional "portrait of an artist and woman drawn to the brink of destruction by the cruelty of life. In her ... novel, Amelia Gray offers a ... portrayal of a legendary artist churning through prewar Europe. [The book] seeks to obliterate the mannered portrait of a dancer and to introduce the reader to a woman who lived and loved without limits, even in the darkest days of her life"--Amazon.com.

Crossing the country with his camera in the late nineteenth century, San Francisco photographer Edward Muybridge meets the emancipated young dancer Holly Hughes, who becomes his life's focus until a corrupt robber baron, interested in Muybridge's talent for technology, comes between them.