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Windy City blues : V.I. Warshawski stories

Collection of short stories featuring gutsy female detective V.I. Warshawski, working her beat in the city of Chicago.

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  • "Collection of short stories featuring gutsy female detective V.I. Warshawski, working her beat in the city of Chicago."@en
  • "A series of short stories featuring the Chicago private eye with an attitude."
  • "DECKED OUT IN HER SILK SHIRTS AND NO NONSENSE ATTITUDE, V.I. HAS BARELY FINISHED HER MORNING COFFEE WHEN SHE SEES AN AD IN THE PAPER ASKING FOR INFORMATION ABOUT HER OWN MOTHER, LONG DEAD. ENTER HER NEWFOUND ITALIAN COUSIN VICO, WITH A SCORE TO SETTLE IN BLOOD. SO MUCH FOR FAMILY TIES. BUT WHEN V.W.'S FRIENDD DR. LOTTY HERSCHEL IS SUSPECTED OF KILLING HER PROFESSIONAL RIVAL AND STEALING HIS PRICELESS STATUE, V.I. CUTS TO THE ART OF THE CASE AND IT'S NOT A PRETTY PICTURE AT ALL! THEN A HIGH SCHOOL CLASSMATE SUMMONS V.I. TO A RACE AT THE OLD SWIMMING HOLE ONLY TO LEAVE HER SWIMMING WITH THE SHARKS. BY NOW V.I. COULD USE A RELAXING FACIAL. INSTEAD, SHE GETS THE BUSINESS WHEN HER PAL SAL'S BEAUTICIAN SISTER TRANSFORMS A CLIENT INTO A STIFF."@en
  • "Nine stories feature Chicago's hard-nosed but tender-hearted private investigator V.I. Warshawski."@en
  • "Nine stories on PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago, mostly involving friends and family. In one, at the request of an Italian cousin she searches for sheet music which belonged to her mother, in another a friend asks her aid in recovering a stolen family sculpture."
  • "Nine stories on PI V.I. Warshawski of Chicago, mostly involving friends and family. In one, at the request of an Italian cousin she searches for sheet music which belonged to her mother, in another a friend asks her aid in recovering a stolen family sculpture."@en
  • "It's strictly Friends & Family as V.I. Warshawski, "the detective mystery fans have been waiting for" (Time), makes return appearances in a collection of stories that bring new meaning to "ties that bind."??Decked out in her silk shirts and no-nonsense Attitude, V.I. is out to make a living--by the skin of her teeth.In "Grace Notes," V.I. has barely finished her morning coffee when she sees an ad in the paper asking for information about her own mother, long dead.??The paper leads V.I. to her newfound Italian cousin Vico, who's looking for music composed by their great-grandmother.??What's the score???Clearly it's something to kill for... "The Pietro Andromache" finds V.I.'s friend Dr. Lotty Herschel with motive and means to dispatch her professional rival and steal his priceless statue.??Lotty didn't do it--but does she know who did???V.I. soon cuts to the art of the case--and it's not a pretty picture at all!Summoned by an old high school friend to a race "At the Old Swimming Hole," V.I. ends up swimming with the sharks--the FBI and a ruthless gambling kingpin--in a pool of blood.... And it's only "Skin Deep" when a relaxing facial transformation transforms a client into a stiff.??V.I.'s pal Sal needs help.??Her beautician sister Evangeline is prime suspect--and V.I. has only eighteen hours to crack the case before it's headline news..."??Three-Dot Po" proves there's nothing like a dog.??Especially a dog on the trail of her mistress's killer, with V.I. in tow...In "Strung Out," love means nothing and V.I.'s quick to learn the score as her old friend's tennis-champion daughter is under suspicion for strangling her father with a racket string.??And there's more, nine stories in all, in this masterful collection of short fiction starring V.I. Warshawski, "the most engaging woman in detective fiction since Dorothy Sayers's Harriet Vane" (Newsweek).From the Paperback edition."@en

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  • "Genres littéraires"
  • "Detective and mystery stories"@en
  • "Short stories"
  • "Detective and mystery fiction"@en
  • "Mystery fiction"@en
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "Ta blouz tēs polēs tōn anemōn"
  • "Windy City blues / M"
  • "Windy City blues : V.I. Warshawski stories"@en
  • "Windy City blues : V.I. Warshawski stories"
  • "Windy City Blues"@en
  • "Windy city blues"
  • "Windy city blues"@en
  • "Windy City blues"@en
  • "Windy City blues"
  • "Un vent de folie"
  • "Windy City blues / S"@en
  • "Windy city : V.I. Warshawski stories"
  • "Windy City blues V.I. Warshawski stories"@en
  • "Windy city blues : V.I. Warshawski stories"
  • "Windy City blues a V.I. Warshawski novel"@en
  • "Windy city blues : V. I. Warshawski stories"