"V. I. Warshawski 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. With the exception of ""The Pietro Andromache"", Warshawski's adventures are written in the first person. Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski, called ""Vic"" by her friends, is the daughter of Italian-born Gabriella Sestrieri, who was half-Jewish and fled the Mussolini regime in 1941. Trained as an opera singer, she was destitute when she arrived as a refugee immigrant. She met and married Anton ""Tony"" Warshawski, a Polish"
"Blacklist (novel) Blacklist is a 2003 novel by crime writer Sara Paretsky featuring her protagonist, Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski. It won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski is asked by a longtime client to look into his mother's suspicion that trespassers are living in the empty mansion her father built. V.I. discovers a corpse on the property that is found to be a young black journalist who was writing about members of a 1930s federal theater project and one member in particular that was blacklisted during the Communist witch hunt. V.I. is hired"
"by the journalist's sister to investigate his death. Blacklist (novel) Blacklist is a 2003 novel by crime writer Sara Paretsky featuring her protagonist, Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski. It won the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger. Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski is asked by a longtime client to look into his mother's suspicion that trespassers are living in the empty mansion her father built. V.I. discovers a corpse on the property that is found to be a young black journalist who was writing about members of a 1930s federal theater project and one member in particular that was blacklisted"
"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. V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to her old South Chicago neighborhood, but she's never been a woman who breaks a promise. Returning to her old neighborhood for a school reunion, she finds herself agreeing to search for a childhood friend's missing father, a man her friend never knew and about whom her friend's dying mother"
"role and image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of ""Clues: A Journal of Detection"" is devoted to her work. She is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, an organization that supports and promotes women in the mystery field. Sara Paretsky Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa. Her father was a microbiologist and moved the family to Kansas in 1951 after taking a job at the University of"
"while she is gathering evidence against him. He confronts her and tells her she is going to die. The book, the second in which Warshawski, a crucial figure in a new breed of female detectives in detective literature, appears, is the basis of the film ""V.I. Warshawski"", starring Kathleen Turner in the title role. The author was given an award by the Friends of American Writers for the book. Deadlock (novel) Deadlock is a detective novel by Sara Paretsky told in the first person by private eye (Vic) V. I. Warshawski. Vic goes to the Chicago port to find out"
"will not speak. What ought to have been a routine missing-persons case rapidly turns up a homicide; and Warshawski must battle corrupt local politicians and businessmen, who do all they can to derail her investigation. The novel was nominated for the 1989 Anthony Award in the ""Best Novel"" category. 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. V.I. Warshawski isn't crazy about going back to"
"Sara Paretsky Sara Paretsky (born June 8, 1947) is an American author of detective fiction, best known for her novels focused on the female protagonist V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky was born in Ames, Iowa. Her father was a microbiologist and moved the family to Kansas in 1951 after taking a job at the University of Kansas, where Paretsky eventually graduated. Being Jewish, the family was limited in where they could live due to segregated zoning laws at the time, and they ended up renting an old farm house. Her relationship with her parents was strained; her mother was an alcoholic and"
"partly motivated the strong feminist tone her novels take” (Wyrick). Paretsky's writing style is mostly influenced by feminism, but she uses her ""expertise in the insurance business"" (Wyrick) as a background when she wrote Indemnity Only. ""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 confident in what they do. In an interview conducted by Monica"
"1970 until his death in 2018. (https://chicago.suntimes.com/news/courtenay-wright-sara-paretsky-university-chicago-physicist-dday-witness-obituary/) She is an alumna of the Ragdale Foundation. She was to appear in an amateur light opera production in 2011. The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is V.I. Warshawski, a female private investigator. She created her as a female response to male hard-boiled detectives such as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. In 1991 the film ""V.I. Warshawski"" was released starring Kathleen Turner. The lead character came from Paretsky, and although the film is based on the novel ""Deadlock"", several changes were made from the book. Paretsky is credited with transforming the"
"60 novels, as well as story collections and nonfiction works. Kaminsky was a past president of the Mystery Writers of America. Besides being one of America's most prolific mystery writers, Kaminsky inspired many other writers in the genre, including fellow Chicagoan Sara Paretsky, who dedicated the first novel in her V. I. Warshawski private-eye series to Kaminsky. Kaminsky and his wife, Enid Perll, moved to St. Louis, Missouri in March 2009 to await a liver transplant to treat the hepatitis he contracted as an army medic in the late 1950s in France. He suffered a stroke two days after their"
"Peter Vronsky Peter Vronsky is a Canadian author, filmmaker and investigative historian. He holds a PhD in criminal justice history and espionage in international relations from the University of Toronto. He is the author of the bestseller true crime histories """" (2004) and ""Female Serial Killers: How and Why Women Become Monsters"" and the forthcoming """" (August 2018). He is the director of several feature films, including ""Bad Company"" (1980) and ""Mondo Moscow"" (1992). Vronsky is the creator of a substantial body of formal video and electronic artworks and new media. He has also worked professionally in the motion picture"
"series,"" while Chicago Magazine compared Paretsky's integration of character and environment to past masters of the genre Dashiell Hammett and Chandler. In the 3 March 1982 issue of The New Republic, crime-fiction critic Robin W. Winks described the novel as ""thoroughly convincing.""” Indemnity Only Indemnity Only is a mystery novel written by Sara Paretsky. V. I. Warshawski, a private detective, is employed by a man who calls himself John Thayer to find his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill. However, as she begins her search, V.I. almost immediately comes across Peter Thayer, John's son, dead. Her investigation takes a definite turn as"
"Deadlock (novel) Deadlock is a detective novel by Sara Paretsky told in the first person by private eye (Vic) V. I. Warshawski. Vic goes to the Chicago port to find out about her cousin Boom Boom's death. She believes that Boom Boom was killed. The police believe that this ex-Black Hawks hockey player died in an accident. 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 the magnate"
"Indemnity Only Indemnity Only is a mystery novel written by Sara Paretsky. V. I. Warshawski, a private detective, is employed by a man who calls himself John Thayer to find his son's girlfriend, Anita Hill. However, as she begins her search, V.I. almost immediately comes across Peter Thayer, John's son, dead. Her investigation takes a definite turn as she discovers ulterior motives for Anita's whereabouts to be found. In her search, Warshawski also discovers that the man who claims to be John Thayer turns out to be Andrew McGraw, the father of Anita Hill and a big labor union leader."
"Richard Warshak Richard A. Warshak (born December 18, 1949) is an American clinical and research psychologist and author. He is best known for his expertise on divorce, child custody, and parental alienation. Warshak has written three books, ""The Custody Revolution"", ""Divorce Poison: Protecting the Parent-Child Bond From a Vindictive Ex"", and the revised edition, ""Divorce Poison: How to Protect Your Family from Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing"". He appears in the PBS documentary ""Kids and Divorce"". Warshak graduated from Brooklyn's Midwood High School in 1966 and received his B.S. degree from Cornell University in 1971. Warshak received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology"
"Robert Barsky Robert Franklin Barsky is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Law School, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an expert on Noam Chomsky, literary theory, convention refugees, immigration and refugee law, borders, work through the Americas, and Montreal. His biography of Chomsky titled """" was published in 1997 by MIT Press, followed in 2007 by """", and then in 2011 by , all published by MIT Press. His most recent books are ""Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary Law"" (Routledge Law, 2016) and ""Hatched!"", a novel (Sunbury Press, 2016). Barsky"
"Though Collins is sometimes credited with inventing the detective story, others give that honour to Edgar Allan Poe, whose ""Murders in the Rue Morgue"" (1841) was 27 years earlier than Collins' ""The Moonstone"". However, Collins almost certainly began the tradition of female sleuths continued by Agatha Christie with Miss Marple and, in more modern times, V. I. Warshawski, Sara Paretsky's private detective. The Law and the Lady The Law and the Lady is a detective story, published in 1875 by Wilkie Collins. It is not quite as sensational in style as ""The Moonstone"" and ""The Woman in White"". Valeria Brinton"
"of the Literature and Law Seminar at the Robert Penn Warren Center. Robert Barsky Robert Franklin Barsky is a professor in the College of Arts and Sciences, and the Law School, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is an expert on Noam Chomsky, literary theory, convention refugees, immigration and refugee law, borders, work through the Americas, and Montreal. His biography of Chomsky titled """" was published in 1997 by MIT Press, followed in 2007 by """", and then in 2011 by , all published by MIT Press. His most recent books are ""Undocumented Immigrants in an Era of Arbitrary"
"Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He earned six other Edgar nominations, most recently for the 2005 non-fiction book ""Behind the"
"Soviet actresses of the 60s-70s. They divorced later. He is currently married to the actress Elena Denisova. Radzinsky is an author of more than forty popular non-fiction books on historical subjects. Since the 1990s, he has written the series ""Mysteries of History"". The books translated to English include his biographies of Tsars Nicholas II and Alexander II, Rasputin, and Joseph Stalin. His book """" discusses a number of well known controversies about Joseph Stalin, including the existence of a fuller text of Lenin's Testament, the alleged involvement of Stalin as an agent of the Tsarist secret police, and the role"
"(1990) contains a sample of recording from Vyshinsky's speech at the Zinoviev-Kamenev trial of 1936. Vyshinsky is a character at the beginning of the 2016 novel A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles as the Prosecutor in a purported transcript of an appearance by Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov, the novel's Gentleman protagonist, before the Emergency Committee of the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs on 21 June 1922. Andrey Vyshinsky Andrey Yanuaryevich Vyshinsky (; ) ( – 22 November 1954) was a Soviet politician, jurist and diplomat. He is known as a state prosecutor of Joseph Stalin's Moscow trials and for"
"the Witch Hunts in Europe and North America"" Longman, 2001. ""The People's War: Responses to World War II in the Soviet Union,"" Co-editor with Bernd Bonwetsch, contributor, University of Illinois Press, 2000; anthology. ""Life and Terror in Stalin's Russia, 1934-1941"" (1996). Yale University Press. ""Liberal City, Conservative State: Moscow and Russia's Urban Crisis, 1906-1914"" Oxford University Press, 1987. Articles and op-eds in various newspapers and popular magazines, e.g. History Today. Articles on coffee in several trade magazines. Robert W. Thurston Robert W. Thurston is an American historian and author. He is professor emeritus at Miami University (Ohio) and founder and"
"philological scientific research of a Russian Professor Alla Bolshakova: ""Russian-Belarusian writer Sergei Trahimenok belongs to the cohort of those ""marginal"" writers who continue to create works in Russian, despite the difficult process of rebuilding national identity in the former Soviet republics"". Trakhimenok is best known for his spy novel ""Notes of a Black Colonel"", psychological detective novel ""Burnout Syndrome"" (2008) and a dashingly twisted detective with mixture of different techniques of fantasy, conspiracy, detective fiction and dystopia ""A Petri Bowl or Russian Civilization: the Genesis and Survival Problems"" (2012). As a screenwriter he is the member of BELVIDEOCENTER. In 2014,"
"of ""Strange Life of Ivan Osokin"" similar to the existential dilemma of ""Groundhog Day"". Both works imply that a sober acceptance of personal accountability is necessary in order to effect an increase in the degree of freedom of the individual. Ramis' opinion is printed in the Lindisfarne Books' 2004 edition of ""Strange Life of Ivan Osokin"". 12 editions Strange Life of Ivan Osokin Strange Life of Ivan Osokin () is a 1915 novel by P. D. Ouspensky. It follows the unsuccessful struggle of Ivan Osokin to correct his mistakes when given a chance to relive his past. The novel serves"
"by private indictment, but finally lost in the court. In 2011 he published the book ""Attempt in Smolensk"" (2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash), which became bestseller in Poland (with the circulation of more than 100 000). He published unknown facts and concluded, that two explosions were the reason of aircraft and polish president Lech Kaczyński was murdered by russian and polish secret services, because he tried to prevent the new contract for gas supplies between Poland and Russia, which was unfavorable for Poland. Leszek Szymowski Leszek Szymowski (9 May 1981) is a Polish investigative journalist, photographer, traveller, author of"
"book, ""Poland, the Unknown"", offers a defence of the country's history against hostile Russian and German interpretations. As a man of letters, Waliszewski expressed his intention to introduce Joseph Conrad to the Polish public in 1903, after the two had exchanged a number of letters. Kazimierz Waliszewski Kazimierz Klemens Waliszewski (1849–1935) was a Polish author of history, who studied in Warsaw and Paris, and wrote primarily about Russian history. Born in Poland, but a long resident in France, Waliszewski wrote a detailed, scholarly works covering nearly three centuries of Russian history: from Ivan the Terrible to the end of the"
"Mulroney and the ""Ottawa Citizen"" book of the year award for ""Insiders"". John Sawatsky Ferdinand John Sawatsky (born 1948) is a Canadian author, journalist and expert on interviewing techniques. Born in Winkler, Manitoba, he graduated from Mennonite Educational Institute in Abbotsford and attended Simon Fraser University in the late 1960s. Graduating in political science, he started his career as an investigative reporter. In the 1970s, while working as the Ottawa correspondent for the ""Vancouver Sun"", he published a series of articles on misdeeds of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He quit daily journalism in 1979 and wrote a number of"
"of historical documentation resulting in numerous misconceptions. Initially, Władysław Siemiaszko was asked to assist military historian Józef Turowski of the Polish Society of War Veterans, gathering materials for a memorial project. Turowski died on July 24, 1989, before their collaborative work, kept unpublished for four years by the authorities, became first available in Poland in 1990 as limited edition print. Subsequently, Władysław with daughter Ewa Siemaszko, in their own ten-year-long research project went on to document murders committed on Polish citizens by Ukrainian Insurgents in some 1,865 villages and towns of Volhynia during the Nazi and Soviet occupations. Their books"
"in Volyn. Subsequently, Władysław with daughter Ewa Siemaszko – in their own ten-year-long research project – went on to document murders committed on Polish citizens by Ukrainian Insurgents in some 1,865 villages and towns of Volhynia during the Nazi and Soviet occupations. Their books were based on witness accounts, court documents including transcripts from trials of Ukrainian war criminals, as well as the Polish national archives and statistical censuses. In 2010 the Institute of National Remembrance (Bulletin No. 7–8, 116–117) published an overview by Ewa Siemaszko of their joint research with the following up-to-date table of collected data. The fall"
"V.I. Warshawski (film) V.I. Warshawski is a 1991 film directed by Jeff Kanew and starring Kathleen Turner. Victoria Iphigenia ""V.I"" Warshawski is a Chicago-based freelance private investigator who lives the part of the hard-boiled detective. But in her heart of hearts, she is a softy. One night, while she is drinking at her favorite bar, she meets an ex-Blackhawks hockey player named Boom-Boom Grafalk (Stephen Meadows). The two connect and a romance appears to be in the making. But Warshawski is nevertheless surprised when Boom-Boom appears at her doorstep later that night with his 13-year-old daughter, Kat (Angela Goethals) in"
"arrival in St. Louis, which made him ineligible for a transplant. He died on October 9, 2009. Stuart M. Kaminsky Stuart M. Kaminsky (September 29, 1934 – October 9, 2009) was an American mystery writer and film professor. He is known for three long-running series of mystery novels featuring the protagonists Toby Peters, a private detective in 1940s Hollywood; Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, a Moscow police inspector; and veteran Chicago police officer Abe Lieberman. A later series followed Lew Fonesca, a process server from Sarasota, Florida. Kaminsky's Inspector Rostnikov novel ""A Cold Red Sunrise"" received the 1989 Edgar Award for"
"The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin The Life and Extraordinary Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, ""Zhizn i neobïchaynïe priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina"") is a 1969–2007 novel by Soviet dissident writer Vladimir Voinovich. Voinovich wrote two sequels to the novel Pretender to the Throne: The Further Adventures of Private Ivan Chonkin (, ""Pretendent na prestol: Novye priklyucheniya soldata Ivana Chonkina""), 1979, and A Displaced Person (, ""Peremyeshyonnoye litso""), 2007; together, the trilogy constitutes Voinovich's ""magnum opus"". The first book is set in the Red Army during World War II, satirically exposing the daily absurdities of the totalitarian"