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Windy City Blues (Mass Market Paperback)

by Sara Paretsky (Author) "I WAS READING the Herald-Star at breakfast when the notice jumped out at me from the personal section ..." (more)
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Chicago PI V.I. Warshawski stars in a collection of short tales.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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This collection of five short stories read by Jean Smart will charm fans of Paretsky (Blood Shot, Audio Reviews, LJ 12/93) and her fabulous creation, V.I. Warshawski. Smart reads beautifully: Warshawski's contralto voice sounds tough, intelligent, and unflagging. The beat and stress of syllables demonstrate the energetic, quick-thinking detective even when her voice fades in exhaustion or pain. The stories also give Smart room to use accents, which she does most felicitously: in "Grace Notes," V.I. meets an Italian cousin, and Smart's Italian accent is rhythmic and winsome; in "The Maltese Cat," Warshawski's Mississippi clients sound either aristocratic or redneck; hesitation and quiet mark the speech of Japanese-American protagonists in "The Takomoku Joseki." Other stories include "At the Old Swimming Hole," where V.I. witnesses a murder at a swim meet, and "The Case of the Pietro Andromache," in which Max's lover, Dr. Lotte Hershold, is accused of murder. Highly recommended for popular and mystery collections.
Juleigh Muirhead Clark, Coll. of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Worth reading if you're a die-hard fan, April 7 1999
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Had Windy City Blues been the first V.I. Warshawski volume I'd read, I may have been disappointed. As it was, the characters were familiar, and I enjoyed the new format (even though I hope Ms. Paretsky sticks to V.I. novels in the future). The author owes her readers nothing, and is entitled to experiment with her popular character. If this is the first time you've read a V.I. Warshawski mystery, by all means, read the others!
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1.0 out of 5 stars Ripoff/Short Stories Disguised as Novel/Stories Inane, Dec 2 1996
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The only clue on the front cover of this book that it is not a V.I. Warshwski novel is a single line reading "V.I. Warshawski Stories." Discovering that I'd paid $7.00 for short stories rather than a novel was a disappointment, and as I started the book, I discovered that the publisher had double spaced the text to make it appear that this was a normal length book. However, the biggest disappointments were the stories themselves. In the story entitled "The Pietro Andromache," the author stoops to gathering all of the suspects together in a room and cleverly solving the mystery! Adult characters in this awful story actually utter the lines "Yowie! Zowie! Powie!" and "Pooper snooper, pooper snooper." This is one of the most inane stories I've read in years! I have been a fan of this author for a long time, and have read all of the previous books in this series. This time I feel ripped off. I will probably not buy more books by this author.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not Paretsky's best work, but not too bad either., Dec 14 1995
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This review is from: Windy City Blues (Hardcover)
The stories in "Windy City Blues," written throughout Ms. Paretsky's career as a novelist, are not up to her usual standard, but they are entertaining enough to be worth reading. It has been long enough since a new V.I. Warshawski novel was published (the last was "Tunnel Vision," 1994) that it just feels good to see these familiar characters again. But don't expect complicated plots: none of these mysteries taxes Vic's estimable deductive skill much.
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