{"id":654,"date":"2020-06-30T15:31:41","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T15:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/sealitsearchable\/?p=654"},"modified":"2022-07-02T23:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T23:37:13","slug":"paretsky-sara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/searchablesealit\/p\/paretsky-sara\/","title":{"rendered":"Paretsky, Sara"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sara<\/a>by Mary DeJong Obuchowski <\/em>(2000)<\/p>\n

PARETSKY, SARA (1947- ). V. I. Warshawski, the protagonist in all of Sara Paretsky’s mysteries to date, is a private investigator in Chicago who pursues criminals. In some of her exploits, Warshawski traces them to the wharves, marinas, and beaches of the city; in several cases, as in Blood Shot<\/em> (1988), she nearly loses her life on the shore of Lake Michigan. In Deadlock<\/em> (1984), Warshawski investigates the death of a cousin whose body has been found floating near the wharf of the grain company that employed him. Her search leads her to travel aboard a Great Lakes freighter, narrowly avoiding being blown up along with it as it passes through the Soo locks; she later barely escapes death at the hands of the ship’s owner when she confronts him aboard his sailboat on Lake Michigan.<\/p>\n

Critical episodes of the short story “Three-Dot Po” in Windy City Blues<\/em> (1995) take place along the icy waters of Belmont Harbor, where, while jogging in winter, Warshawski finds a body, tracks the murderer, and, but for the help of a golden retriever named Po, almost drowns. The introduction to Windy City Blues<\/em> is subtitled “A Walk on the Wild Side: Touring Chicago with V. I. Warshawski,” which begins with a description of a blue heron and presents a tour of the city, focusing on the lakefront. In this uncharacteristically poetic passage, Paretsky offers Lake Michigan as a metaphor for both the untamable and the nurturing in nature and in human relationships.<\/p>\n

Blood Shot<\/em> (1988)<\/p>\n

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Deadlock<\/em> (1984)<\/p>\n

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Windy City Blues<\/em> (1995)<\/p>\n

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