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    Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
    Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
    Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
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    Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case

    By Sara Paretsky

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    Sara Paretsky, one of the most legendary crime writers of all time, presents an exclusive and thrilling short story featuring beloved investigator V.I. Warshawski as a ten-year-old girl on her first investigation.

    V.I. Warshawski developed her strength and sense of justice at a very early age.  It’s 1966 and on the south side of Chicago racial tensions are at an all-time high. Dr. Martin Luther King is leading marches at Marquette Park and many in the neighborhood are very angry.

    With nothing but a bicycle, eighty-two cents in her pocket, and her Brownie camera hanging from her wrist, Victoria sneaks off to Marquette Park alone to protect her father Tony, a police officer who is patrolling the crowds.

    What begins as a small adventure and a quest to find her father and make sure he is safe turns into something far more dangerous.  As the day goes on and the conflict at the park reaches a fever pitch Victoria realizes she must use her courage and ingenuity if she wants to keep herself and her family members out of harm’s way.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 7, 2017
    ISBN9780062689504
    Wildcat: V. I. Warshawski's First Case
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    Sara Paretsky

    Hailed by the Washington Post as “the definition of perfection in the genre,” Sara Paretsky is the New York Times bestselling author of numerous novels, including the renowned V.I. Warshawski series. She is one of only four living writers to have received both the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America and the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers Association of Great Britain. She lives in Chicago.

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      Wildcat - Sara Paretsky

      title page

      Contents

      Cover

      Title Page

      Contents

      Wildcat

      About V.I.

      An Excerpt from Fallout

      Chapter 1: Playing the Sap—Again

      Chapter 2: Fit for Life

      About the Author

      Also by Sara Paretsky

      Copyright

      About the Publisher

      Wildcat

      I

      The heat in the attic was so heavy that not even the flies had enough energy to move. The two children lay on the floor. Sweat rose on their skin, gluing their clothes to the linoleum.

      Normally on a hot August Friday, they’d be at the beach, but Marie Warshawski had decreed that her son must remain close to home today. Normally the cousins would have disregarded this edict, but today Victoria was nervous, wanting to hear as much of the grown-up gossip as possible.

      She and Boom-Boom—Bernard to his mother—often spent afternoons together: that was when Victoria’s mother gave music lessons in the minute front room of her own South Chicago bungalow. If Victoria stayed home, she either had to read quietly in her attic room or sit primly in the front room to watch and learn from her mother’s few good singers.

      Just as a student was starting to warm up, Victoria would announce glibly that she would visit Aunt Marie, choosing not to notice her mother’s prohibition against running wild with her cousin.

      In the winters, Victoria followed Boom-Boom to the makeshift ice rinks where he played a rough brand of pick-up hockey. No girls allowed, period, which caused some fights between the cousins—away from the other boys, Boom-Boom wanted Victoria to help him perfect the slapshot of his idol, Boom-Boom Geoffrion.

      Tough, she’d say before skating to the other side of the rink. Girls can’t play hockey, remember? He’d skate after her, they’d argue and even wrestle, until he went down on one knee and said, Victoria, please help me. When I’m a star with the Blackhawks, I’ll get you free tickets to every game.

      In the summers, the cousins spent hours together. With the rest of the neighborhood, they played pick-up baseball in Calumet Park. Or they pooled their coins to take bus and train up to Wrigley Field, where they climbed over the wall behind the bleachers and sneaked into the park. Or they dared each other to jump off the breakwater into Lake Calumet, or rode their bikes past the irate guards at the South Works, playing a complicated hide-and-seek among the mountains of slag.

      This Friday, Victoria was too worried about her father to stray from Aunt Marie’s home. Tony Warshawski was a police officer. Along with every other cop on the South Side, Officer Warshawski had been ordered to Marquette Park to help keep the peace.

      Martin Luther King had come to Chicago in January 1966. He was living in an apartment, a slum, the newspapers called it. All summer long, there had been marches in different parts of the city, with Negroes and their white supporters demanding open housing, an end to real estate covenants, access to Lake Michigan beaches, access to city jobs.

      What are real estate covenants? Victoria had asked her mother.

      White people who own apartment buildings or houses made a law that Negro people can only rent apartments in one part of the city, Gabriella said. They cannot be our neighbors here in South Chicago, for example.

      And they don’t want to be! Aunt Marie exclaimed. They know their place, or they did, until that commie King showed up here. And we’re supposed to call him a doctor and a reverend? He’s just a trouble-maker who can’t live without seeing his face on TV or his picture in the paper. We don’t need him here in Chicago, stirring people up, causing trouble.

      And trouble there’d been, by the truckload. Everywhere the marchers went—Negroes along with their white supporters—including nuns and priests, to Aunt Marie’s fury—riots had followed. White people, who’d only

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