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This novel is 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 doesn't track her down first....
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Detective Rita Myers volume 2
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342 pages ; 24 cm.
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English
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"When her return home to Graybridge coincides with the murder of her friend Kara, former professional ballerina Esmé Foster, haunted by a past tragedy, must shine a light into the darkness to learn what really happened in the woods the night Kara died to bring this nightmare to an end"--
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296 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"Despite vowing to never return to New Orleans when she left for college, Rosemary quickly finds herself back in her hometown - kicked out of school, at odds with her best friend, and desperate to lose herself in a bright, kaleidoscopic nightlife of dive bars and burlesque dancing. This night, though, is different. An unlikely companion, a secret sorrow, and an unexpected visitor force Rosemary to break free. From the burlesque stage in the French...
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419 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm
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English
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The extraordinary story of one of the most famous women of the 19th century, a woman marked by the scandal that had the world at their feet. Lola Montes was not her real name, nor was she Spanish, but she dazzled a whole era with her breathtaking beauty and passionate temperament. Dancer, adventurous and courtesan, her life was a succession of travel, scandals, and eccentricities. Posing as a Andalusian dancer, she debuted at the most important theaters...
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