Deadlock: A V. I. Warshawski Novel
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ISBN: 0440213320 / Publisher: Dell, March 1992
When her cousin, Boom Boom, is murdered, V.I. begins an investigation and is caught up in a game of lies, extortion, blackmail, sabotage, and murder in Chicago's shipping industry. Reprint.
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<b>“V.I. Warshawski is one of the best . . . smart, tough, sexy.”—<i>Daily News</i> (New York)</b><br><br><b>“Sara Paretsky makes excellent use of local backgrounds in a carefully plotted tale of murder and great misdeeds in the world of Great Lakes cargo shipping.”—<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br><br>When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a wharf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Weson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging elaborate attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, the one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, ruthless businessmen and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture—permanently.<br><br><b>“Hard-boiled detective fiction . . . a swift-paced and engrossing read.”—<i>The Philadelphia Inquirer</i></b><br><br><b>“Slithers with suspense!”—<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b>
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