ISBN: 0816155623

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder — this time the "accidental death" of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an … More...

Deadlock, V. I. Warshawski’s second case, involves the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. Once again the subject is murder — this time the "accidental death" of Boom-Boom Warshawski, an ex-hockey star and V. I.’s beloved cousin, who fell — or was pushed — off a rain-slicked pier on Chicago’s busy waterfront. Convinced that Boom-Boom was in fact killed because of information he had uncovered about criminal doings on the shipping lines, V. I. begins a long and frustrating search for her cousin’s murderer. In the course of an investigation that takes her to a remote Canadian port city and a calamitous trip on a sabotaged freighter, V. I. finds all too many possible candidates for the killer, including a grain company executive involved in extortion; and rival heads of two shippers, one of whom is being blackmailed for his criminal past; a hockey player whose specialty is graft; and Boom-Boom’s lover, an icily beautiful dancer with expensive tastes in men and merchandise. contemporary,english as a second language,fiction,foreign language study and reference,hard-boiled,literature and fiction,mystery,mystery thriller and suspense,reference,suspense Suspense, Cengage Gale<

ISBN: 9780816155620

Softcover book. 366 pages. Published by G. K. Hall & Company Media > Book, [PU: G. K. Hall]

ISBN: 9780816155620

Softcover book. 366 pages. Published by Media >, [PU: G. K. Hall]