Deadlock : a V.I. Warshawski mystery
(Book)

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y. : Dial Press, 1984.

"A Dell book."

"When Chicago Black Hawks hockey legend Boom Boom Warshawski slips off a warf and drowns in Lake Michigan, his private-eye cousin questions the accidental death report and rumors of suicide. Armed with a bottle of Black Label and a Smith & Wesson, V.I. follows a trail of violence and corruption to the center of the Windy City's powerful shipping industry. Dodging elaborate attempts on her life with characteristic grit and humor, the one-of-a-kind detective wends her way through a maze of grain elevators and thousand-ton freighters, rutless businessmen and gorgeous ballerinas, to ferret out Boom Boom's killers before they phase her out of the picture--permanently"--Back cover.