Blacklist (novel)
Cover of the first edition | |
Author | Sara Paretsky |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Series | V. I. Warshawski #11 |
Genre | Crime novel |
Publisher | Putnam |
Publication date | September 29, 2003 |
Media type | Print (Hardback) |
Pages | 448 pp. |
ISBN | 0-399-15085-4 |
OCLC | 51726908 |
813/.54 21 | |
LC Class | PS3566.A647 B55 2003 |
Blacklist is a 2003 novel by crime writer Sara Paretsky featuring her protagonist, Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski.[1] It won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger.
Plot
Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski is asked by a longtime client to look into his mother's suspicion that trespassers are living in the empty mansion her father built. V.I. discovers a corpse on the property that is found to be a young black journalist who was writing about members of a 1930s federal theater project and one member in particular that was blacklisted during the Communist witch hunt. V.I. is hired by the journalist's sister to investigate his death.
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