INDEMNITY ONLY
In this gripping adventure -- the first V.I. Warshawski mystery --
America's top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a
seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly.
Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.'s assignment is to
find Thayer's son Peter's missing girlfriend. But when V.I. Finds young
Peter's dead body instead, her client disappears. Her efforts to track
down her client and learn his true identity take her deep into a
labyrinth of fraud and violence. By the time V.I. figures out the
answers, she is in a race to find the missing young woman--before the
murderers do.
DEADLOCK
Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski's second case, involves the huge Great
Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder -- this time
the "accidental death" of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V.
I.'s beloved cousin, who fell -- or was pushed -- off a rain-slicked
pier on Chicago's busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact
killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on
the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her
cousin's murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a
remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged
freighter, V. I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer,
including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival
heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal
past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom's lover,
an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise.
