BLEEDING KANSAS
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2008. First Edition. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author, 8vo, black quarter cloth over black boards, Mylar-protected dust jacket (unclipped) designed by Thomas Tafuri, 431 pages. Very Fine / Very Fine. Item #3300
ISBN: 9780399154058
Another memorable Warshawski mystery SIGNED by the multi-talented New York Times best-selling author.
Sara Paretsky (born 1947), an American author of detective fiction, is best known for her novels based on the female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky created her as a female response to hard-boiled detectives such as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. In 1991 the film "V.I. Warshawski" was released starring Kathleen Turner.
Paretsky, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago, has transformed the image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, which supports and promotes women in the mystery field.--(Wiki).
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