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Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named 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. 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. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law…

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named 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. 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. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law…

Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named 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. 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. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law…

Jest lato 1876 roku. San Francisco nawiedza fala bijących rekordy upałów oraz epidemia ospy, z powodu której wiele dzielnic zostało objętych kwarantanną. Jenny Bonnet zostaje zastrzelona przez okno sypialni w pensjonacie Eight Mile House przy stacji kolejowej, podczas gdy jej przyjaciółka stoi obok, zupełnie bezradna. Blanche Beunon, która ledwo uszła z życiem, to młoda francuska tancerka burleskowa, trudniąca się również prostytucją. Do Kalifornii przyjechała ze swoim charyzmatycznym kochankiem/alfonsem i jego najlepszym przyjacielem. Wszyscy troje, jak na prawdziwych przedstawicieli cyganerii przystało, wiodą wspólny żywot. Jednak przez…