TUNNEL VISION; V. I. Warshawski Stories
New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over dark red boards, archival mylar-protected black-&-red pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with a large woman in glossy silhouette on left watching a tiny shadowy homeless woman with babe-in-arms and two children in upper corner, red endpapers, 432 pages. Very Fine / Near Fine. Item #8327
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.
Author's 8th Warshawski novel. FINE COPY SIGNED by the Author. Dust jacket is clean and bright though has a bit of edgewear.
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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