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The Secret of the Old Clock (Nancy Drew, Book 1)

Carolyn Keene

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Total reviews: 64 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A great mystery story 4 out of 5 stars.
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The Secret of the Old Clock by Carolyn Keene is a great mystery book. All the characters are fit for the story. This is perfect for anyone who enjoys solving problems and coming up with solutions. An amazing storyline, and until the end it will keep you on the edge of your seat!

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Not Free SF Reader 2 out of 5 stars.
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I always liked the Hardy Boys better than Nancy Drew, which is perhaps not too surprising. The whole team adventure thing there is probably a bit more interesting, and perhaps a bit more freedome given to the young lads than Nancy, anyway.

Other than that, a pretty garden variety kids mystery story. With these books, the title does actually have something to do with it.

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In this first of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories, Nancy, unaided, seeks to find a missing will. Her search not only tests her keen mind but also leads her into a thrilling adventure. This volume presents the original, 1930 version of the story. In 1959 the story was rewritten and condensed and this original version went out of print.

Indemnity Only (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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The beginning of a legend 5 out of 5 stars.
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After reading JM Redmann's wonderful Death by the Riverside featuring MIckey Knight, I was so vividly taken with the strong female character that I just had to re-read the other strong female character that I love: VI Warshawsky. Like Knight, Warshawsky is a tough cookie who can hurt, a smart woman who makes human mistakes, and a real pain... for friends who wish she wouldn't get herself into such danger.

Paretsky's gift in storytelling is the way she takes a small incident and lets it mushroom until seemingly unrelated incidents form the picture of a larger, uglier tale. Warshawsky herself is complicated and richly textured character and I loved revisiting her.

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Meeting an anonymous client late on a sizzling  summer night is asking for trouble. But trouble is  Chicago private eye V.I. Warshwski's specialty.  Her client says he's the prominent banker, John  Thayer. Turns out he's not. He says his son's  girlfriend, Anita Hill, is missing. Turns out that's  not her real name. V.I.'s search turns up someone  soon enough -- the real John Thayer's son, and  he's dead. Who's V.I.'s client? Why has she been  set up and sent out on a wild-goose chase? By the  time she's got it figured, things are hotter --  and deadlier -- than Chicago in July. V.I.'s in a  desperate race against time. At stake: a young  woman's life.

Killing Orders (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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Gets into the character 4 out of 5 stars.
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KILLING ORDERS is one of Paretsky's earlier V. I. Warshawski novels. In this case her aunt Rosa is accused by her church in committing stock fraud. She reluctantly asks her niece for her help in clearing her name.

I have read most of Warshawski's novels and this one is one of my favorites mainly because I got to learn more about her character as well as her relationship with her friend, Lotty. I regret having read them in disorder but I recommend this novel for anyone interested in learning how V. I. got started. Although this is the third novel in the series it tells a lot.

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V.I.'s battleaxe Aunt Rosa is under investigation by the FBI and SEC after counterfeit stock certificates were found at St. Albert's Priory, where she serves as treasurer. As malicious as her aunt is, V.I. knows she's not dishonest, so V.I. vows to protect her from taking the fall. But V.I. starts questioning the strength of her family ties when a menacing voice on the phone threatens to throw acid into her eyes if she doesn't butt out. The stakes are high as she begins to sniff out a connection between Chicago's most powerful institutions: the Church and the Mob.

Bleeding Kansas

Sara Paretsky

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Set in the Kaw River Valley where Paretsky grew up, Bleeding Kansas is the story of the Schapens and the Grelliers, two farm families whose histories have been entwined since the 1850s, when their ancestors settled the valley as antislavery emigrants.

Today, the Schapen family, terrified by the lawlessness of the 1970s-when Lawrence was the most violent college town in the nation-has turned to that old- time religion for security. The Schapens keep a close eye on all their neighbors, most especially the Grelliers. They maintain careful track of everyone's misdeeds, printing the most egregious on their family website. When Gina Haring, a Wiccan, moves into an empty farmhouse and starts practicing pagan rites, the family members are so outraged that they begin an active harassment campaign against the Wiccans.

The Schapens worry, too, about who stands better with the Lord: their family or the Grelliers. When a Schapen cow gives birth to what may be a "Perfect Red Heifer"-needed if the temple is ever rebuilt in Jerusalem-the Schapens feel convinced that God is indeed smiling on them.

Despite parental cautions, the Grelliers' teenagers are enraged by the Schapens. All their short lives, they and the young Schapens have fought. One particularly angry confrontation causes Chip Grellier to be expelled from school and consequentlyto join the army. Chip's death in Iraq is the catalyzing event for momentous changes in the lives of not only both the Schapens and the Grelliers but of all the families in the valley. The powerful, climactic scene at Gina Haring's Samhain bonfire will forever haunt the reader.

Deadlock (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Best Action Sequence in a V.I. Novel 5 out of 5 stars.
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The title of this book truly is ingenious. (I won't give away any plot points by telling you why). But I do have to say that there is a scene set in the Soo Locks in Michigan that is truly the most gripping and well-written action scene that I have ever read in a V.I. (or any other) novel. I highly recommend this novel for all V.I. and Sara Paretsky fans.

The Legend Continues... 5 out of 5 stars.
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The only mysteries I read feature strong women characters, and VI Warshawsky is one of the toughest. I had read these early books in the series years ago, but the recent discovery of JM Redmann's Mickey Knight made me want to revisit V.I. and her stories.

Paretsky has a way of punning her titles and this book is no exception. Deadlock. Dead lock. I had never considered the magnitude of tanker shipping commerce and her invention of a plot to clog one route across the great lakes... oh that's giving too much away. It's inventive, it's thrilling, once I started -- even knowing how it ended -- I couldn't put it down.

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When her cousin, Boom Boom, is murdered, V.I. begins an investigation and is caught up in a game of lies, extortion, blackmail, sabotage, and murder in Chicago's shipping industry. Reprint.

Sisters On the Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters in Crime

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These "Sisters" Tell a Good Story! 5 out of 5 stars.
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In 1986, at the Baltimore Boucheron World Mystery Convention, Sara Paretsky and a small group of women mystery writers talked about the difficulties of trying to break into and establish a name in the traditionally male-dominated mystery genre. What started as a conversation that year, blossomed into an organization with well over 3,400 members in 48 chapters worldwide.

Sisters In Crime commemorated its twentieth anniversary last year and the fun continues with the release of Sisters On The Case: Celebrating Twenty Years of Sisters In Crime. The 20-story anthology, edited by Sara Paretsky, offers a wide variety of tales from such mystery favorites as Barbara D'Amato, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, Kate Grilley, and Eve K. Sandstrom.

Being a mystery buff and a great fan of so many of the women contributors, it was difficult to select which stories to highlight.

A Family Sunday in the Park: V. I. Warshawski's First Case by Ms. Paretsky shows readers a young Victoria-or Tori, growing up in South Chicago, her dad one of the city's finest. Assigned to cover Marquette Park during the Martin Luther King and Al Raby protest march in 1966, the story depicts how adults attitudes and beliefs influence young minds, especially that of a girl like Tori.

When she hears her cousin's Uncle Tomas threatening to kill her papa, she sets out to find him and warn him of the threat. In typical V.I. fashion, she runs head first into trouble, but still manages to solve the case.

Lady Patterly's Lover is a wonderful addition, by former Sisters In Crime steering committee member and author, Charlotte MacLeod (deceased). Eleanor, Lady Patterly, plots murder with her lover as her paralyzed husband lay in bed. Will the suddenly devoted young wife actually commit cold blood murder, or will she have a change of heart?

Nancy Pickard's story, I Killed, turns the usual clichéd mob story into a history lesson with wonderfully written dialogue and a nice twist at the end.

Not Just The Facts by Annette Meyers is a brilliant look at point of view, showing that there is more to bare bones than just the facts.

Armchair Interviews says: Whether you are a mystery buff, appreciate and support women writers, or simply enjoy great short stories, Sisters On The Case will make an excellent addition to your bookshelf.

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The latest: an anniversary anthology of 25 short stories by today's best women mystery writers:

Sara Paretsky
Sue Henry
Sue Dunlap
P.M. Carlson
Rochelle Krich
Linda Grant
Carolyn Hart
Libby Fischer Hellman
Nancy Pickard
Kate Grilley
Medora Sale
Barbara D'Amato
Claire Carmichael McNab
Charlotte MacLeod
Annette Meyers
Kate Flora
Eve K. Sandstrom
Patricia Sprinkle
Margaret Maron
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
And more!

Fire Sale (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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Crippled by dumb politics 2 out of 5 stars.
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When I first heard of Sara Paretsky, she had only written two books. I used to go to a bookstore, and the owner recommended Paretsky to me as a writer who was similar to Sue Grafton, at least in the sense that both had female protagonists. That store owner told me that men tended to like her books more than women, and so she recommended the author to me. Those two books were quite good, serious, intelligent, straightforward detective novels with the one difference being that the main character is a woman. Since then, the author has built a good reputation as a detective novelist. At the same time, she's also gained chops as a "social critic", which at times is OK, but with Paretsky, it's not. She doesn't know how to do it subtly, and social criticism, if done ham-handedly, is just boring to read and silly.

PLOT SPOILER AHEAD
In the current episode, Paretsky's alter ego, V.I. Warshawski, has been called back to her old neighborhood by her former high school basketball coach. The coach is dying of cancer, can't coach the team anymore, and needs a replacement. Warshawski's reluctant: she runs her own detective agency, and doesn't have time for this, especially when she finds out that there's no pay. But her loyalty to her old coach overcomes that, and she finds herself blowing a whistle and yelling at a dozen girls as they run up and down the court.

The basketball isn't really what the book's about, though. If that were the case, it might have turned out to be a really good book: similar to Robert B. Parker's Spenser novel Early Autumn, which was the one that convinced me Parker was going to be something special. Instead, Paretsky steers the plot to the largest local business, BySmart, an obvious stand-in for Walmart (though that store is mentioned several times). BySmart is run by William Bysen, a World War II veteran, pulled-himself-up -by-his-bootstraps kind of guy, who has a large family who help him run the business. My first objection to the book is the portrayal of Bysen and his family. I know Paretsky well enough to know that they, or some of them anyway, are going to be the villains of the piece. They are Born Again Christians (of course), incredible hypocrites (goes without saying, doesn't it?), opposed to Unions (you knew that already), and incredibly greedy (why am I telling you this?). It's all written just heavy-handed enough to be silly, without going so far that you could say she was parodying herself. Anyway, Warshawski goes to the local warehouse for the company's stores to try and convince them to donate to her school basketball program, and they predictably have an ineffective, small charity that they've already set up, and trumpet in their TV commercials, so they don't need to give her any money. Then things get complex.

The mother of one of V.I.'s players works in a shop sewing sheets, banners, and flags. Someone's been trying to sabotage the plant, putting dead rats in the air vents of the building, gluing the doors shut with crazy glue, that sort of thing. She asks V.I. to look into it, then mysteriously backs off and insists the investigation is unnecessary, without saying why. V.I. won't buy that explanation, and doggedly continues her investigation (for which she isn't getting paid) without permission, and is watching the factory when it blows sky high, killing the owner.

Meanwhile, there's a separate issue in that another of Warshawski's players collapses on the floor of the court during practice. After a hospital visit and examination we learn she has a genetic heart condition, and can't play ball any more. It turns out her father is an old classmate of V.I.'s, and soon he's helping one of V.I.'s boyfriend Morell's colleagues, as that woman (her name is Marcena) as she tries to learn about "the America Europe doesn't know". She's English, a globe-trotting journalist who drove a tank through Bosnia one time, and Warshawski is predictably jealous of the rapport she has with Morrell, who's recently back from Afghanistan with many bullet holes, recuperating.

You can see there are a lot of plot threads here, and it takes a good long while for Paretsky to let her main character sort through them. This is a 500+ page private eye novel, and it's not tightly plotted like something Greg Iles or James Lee Burke would write, with everything sort of following from one event or incident to another. Here, poor Warshawski runs back and forth trying to keep all the balls in the air, and when the climactic confrontation between our heroine and the villains finally does occur, it's very predictable, and she's telegraphed it for at least half the book. It's also badly contrived, and doesn't really make a lot of sense, and once you discover who the actual killers are, their motivations are absurd, in the extreme, even for spoiled rich kids.

I used to really enjoy Sara Paretsky. I know her politics are different from mine, and that didn't used to matter. I still read Walter Mosley, for instance, and I'm pretty sure I disagree with his politics too: his stories trump that, however. Paretsky's gotten so lame with hers, though, that they cripple the story and make everything very very predictable. The only mystery here is why someone thought the book should be in the mystery section. It's sort of annoying, perhaps dismaying, to know that someone dislikes rich people (other than themselves, of course) enough that they can't find anyone or anything positive to say about a character they make wealthy. Yes, there are corporate moguls who every bit as evil as the ones she portrays in the book, but they're not *all* like that. I think Paretsky either doesn't think they exist, or alternatively thinks they'd make a bad story. Unfortunately, so did the characters she chose to portray.

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A nagging conscience makes V.I. Warshawski agree to fill in as coach for the girls' basketball team at her South Side alma mater-which in turn leads her to the headquarters of By-Smart, the global retail empire where V.I. hopes to get some desperately needed funds for the struggling squad. But conscience seems to be in short supply at By-Smart...with the exception of Billy Bysen. He's the earnest teenage grandson of the chain's gruff, tight-fisted founder. And when Billy disappears-along with a mysterious document much desired by By-Smart's management team-V.I. is hurled onto a twisted, body-strewn path that runs through Chicago's dirtiest places, and reveals some of its dirtiest secrets.

Burn Marks (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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My Favorite Paretsky 5 out of 5 stars.
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Vic must reluctantly rescue her Aunt Elena, a notorious drunkard, con woman and flirt. While she is disgusted at Elena's antics, she is discerning enough to know that she shares some of Elena's character flaws. As usual, Vic's good heartedness leads her into a murky world of dishonest politicians, traitorous cops and disgruntled bankers. As usual, she can rely on none but herself to solve the mystery and right the wrongs of the system. As usual, Peppy, Mr. Contreras (Sal)and Lottie are ever watchful and protective of their friend. As usual, this book is filled with interesting characters, locations, events and probing character analyses. If you like your protagonists intelligent, resourceful, wisecracking yet wearing the perfect set of Magli pumps, this heroine is for you.

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Someone knocking on the door at 3 A.M. is never  good news. For V.I. Warshawski, the bad news  arrives in the form of her wacky, unwelcome aunt Elena.  The fire that has just burned down a sleazy  SRO hotel has brought Elena to  V.I.'s doorstep. Uncovering an arsonist  -- and the secrets hidden behind Elena's boozy  smile -- will send V.I. into the  seedy world of Chicago's homeless... into the Windy  City's backroom deals and bedroom politics, where  new schemers and old cronies team up to get V.I.  off the case -- by hook, by crook, or by  homocide.

Blacklist (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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Privilege, politics, and perfidy jointly propel the circuitous plot of Blacklist, Sara Paretsky's 11th novel featuring tenacious Chicago private-eye V.I. Warshawski. By the time this story runs its course, V.I. will have harbored an alleged Arab terrorist, resurrected the ghosts of America's 1950s anti-Communist hysteria, and questioned the integrity of a man she once admired "to the point of hero worship." In other words, it's a typical case for this hard-headed, sarcastic, and perpetually sleep-deprived sleuth.

Still suffering from "exhaustion of the spirit" in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, V.I. is hired to find out who may be sneaking into a vacated suburban mansion. Geraldine Graham, the home's 91-year-old former owner, who still lives nearby, claims she's seen lights in the attic at night. Our heroine suspects this is simply a bid by the wealthy dowager for greater attention, but agrees to do some nocturnal prowling--only to stumble (literally) across the body of a dead black journalist, Marcus Whitby, in the estate’s ornamental pond and encounter a teenage girl fleeing the scene. The girl turns out to be Catherine Bayard, the granddaughter of Calvin Bayard, an unapologetically liberal book publisher who survived a hounding by the U.S. House Un-American Activities Committee in the '50s without being blacklisted like so many of his authors. Digging deeper, V.I. learns that Whitby was doing research for a book about an African-American dancer and anthropologist who had enjoyed Bayard's support before she too was branded a Communist. Was Whitby killed en route to visit Bayard, one of Graham's neighbors--and a man who has strangely vanished from public view? And is there any connection between this murder and the disappearance of an Egyptian dishwasher, or the recent demise of a right-wing attorney and Bayard foe, in whose apartment V.I. is attacked by an intruder?

Except for a few astounding turns of luck (including the 11th-hour discovery of a revealing audiotape left in a car's player), Paretsky rolls out a credible yarn here, enriched by meticulous character development and an agreeably ambiguous conclusion. The author's intention to link McCarthy-era abuses with post-9/11 government assaults on civil rights is obvious, without being didactic, and it adds currency to a fictional investigation that's already rife with sex, betrayal, and long-held secrets among the rich. It's good to see that V.I. the P.I. hasn't lost the compassion or righteousness that first made her attractive two decades ago, in Indemnity Only. --J. Kingston Pierce

Tunnel Vision (V.I. Warshawski Novels)

Sara Paretsky

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Too Hard to Believe 2 out of 5 stars.
6 of 9 people found this review helpful.

I've read every Paretsky / Warshawski book but the last (as we speak), but I'm disappointed at the pretty unbelievable action in this one. I often feel like our author and our leading lady have the same problem as Robin Cook sometimes -- when the characters start moving around and breaking into places and being mugged, being tailed, etc. etc., it just gets a little tough to believe. I believe if V.I. stayed put a little more and did a little more cerebral work and a little less hotdogging 'round Chicago, we'd both be happer.

I'm still a fan, but I'd rather see fewer and more well developed characters, a somewhat less complicated yet compelling plot, and surely less social commentary. Letting some reasonable actions speak for themselves is better than rubbing our faces in it. Would like to see Paretsky stop reading Grisham and get back to her earlier self!

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Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office.  With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors.  Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear.  Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder--after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns up sprawled across her desk.

V.I., who had volunteered with Deirdre at a women's shelter, suspects her death is linked to a case of upper-class domestic abuse so slickly concealed that the police refuse to believe it.  Increasingly at odds with the cops, V.I. is blindly plunging ahead after the truth.  And her path may lead to corruption at the highest levels.or deep into the abandoned tunnels beneath Chicago's streets, where secrets are hiding in the dark like a child's--or V.I.'s--worst nightmare.