![]() exposes a convincing insurance scare, she finds the missing Anita and plays godmother to Peter Thayer's unhappy teenage sister. Then Peter's father (the real John Thayer) is also murdered, so the insurance/bank/union/mob tangle gets more complicated. then promptly discovers Peter's murdered body, the plot thickens: her client, it seems, was really Anita's father, a shady labor leader and Peter was working for the Ajax Insurance Co.-which may have had illegal connections with the labor leader and with some mobster types (who rough V.I. is hired by banker John Thayer (or so he identifies himself) to locate Anita, the missing girlfriend of his son Peter. ![]() (Victoria) Warshawski of Chicago, first-novelist Paretsky is doing the same thing with an absolutely straight face and the result, if rather flat, is a sturdily readable diversion that's no more implausible than any other hard-boiled fare. 462), David Galloway played the idea of a super-hard-boiled female shamus strictly for laughs-not very successfully. ![]()
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