Sara Paretsky: Deadlock (USA 1992) From the Publisher: Sara Paretsky: Deadlock. Dell Publishing Company, ISBN: 0440213320 (April, 1992), 263 p., $4.99.
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Sara Paretsky: Deadlock (USA 1985) From the Publisher: But between attempts on her life and shots of Scotch, the intrepid, witty Warshawski winds her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, suspicious businessmen and gorgeous ballerinas. She's hot on a trail that will tell whether she's taken the whole thing too personally or her beloved Boom Boom has really been murdered. Sara Paretsky: Deadlock. Ballantine Mystery, ISBN: 0345319540 (December, 1984), 263 p., $2.95.
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Sara Paretsky: Deadlock (USA 1984) From the Publisher: DEADLOCK brings the welcome return of V.I. in a case involving the huge Great Lakes shipping industry. and 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 bad 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. Sara Paretsky: Deadlock. A V.I. Warshawski Novel. Dial Press, ISBN: 0385279337 (February, 1984), 252 p., $14.95.
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