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Paretsky is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. [5] She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011. [1] The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel.
Victoria Iphigenia "Vic" "V. I." Warshawski is a fictional private investigator from Chicago who is the protagonist featured in a series of detective novels and short stories written by Chicago author Sara Paretsky. [1] With the exception of "The Pietro Andromache", Warshawski's adventures are written in the first person. [2]
Metro. (franchise) Metro ( Russian: Метро ), ( Ukrainian: Метро) is a post-apocalyptic fiction franchise consisting primarily of novels and video games that began with the 2005 release of Russian writer Dmitry Glukhovsky 's novel Metro 2033. It was followed by his sequels Metro 2034 and Metro 2035, as well as by many other books by ...
The film was based on a series of books by Sara Paretsky. Screenwriters Edward Taylor, David Aaron Cohen, and Nick Thiel adapted only one of Sara Paretsky's novels, Deadlock, for the script for this movie, which took at least one liberty with the story. Whereas Paretsky had written the novel as a serious mystery, the screenwriters took an ...
"Sara Paretsky, author of a series of mystery novels featuring detective V.I Warshawski, is known for bringing a feminist perspective to the hard-boiled Private Eye genre."(Hileman) Throughout the first book of the series, Indemnity Only, the idea of a strong female lead character is taking shape. Paretsky believed that females need to be ...
The police believe that this ex- Black Hawks hockey player died in an accident, but Vic believes that Boom Boom was killed. Vic starts digging for motive and evidence. After two attempts on her life, she finally thinks she has the murder solved but needs strong evidence. To get it, she goes to the yacht of a shipping magnate but is caught by ...
Blood Shot. (novel) Blood Shot (marketed under the title Toxic Shock in the United Kingdom ), published in New York in 1988, is the fifth in a series of novels by Sara Paretsky featuring her character V. I. Warshawski, a hard-boiled female private investigator. [1] The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award in the "Best Novel" category.
This is a list of video games that center upon the fictional character of Nancy Drew. Some of the games are adaptations of various Nancy Drew books, while others are not. The games for computer and mobile, some of which were ported to game consoles, have been developed and published by HeR Interactive.