β Scribed by Sara Paretsky
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
The national bestseller by the author of Burn Marks. When a crotchety
80-year-old starts wrangling with a yuppie couple over the state of the
neighborhood, it's up to tough private eye V.I. Warshawski to come to
his rescue. And the emotional stew thickens further when the old man's
body turns up in a canal and Mr. Yuppie turns out to be a corrupt
lawyer.
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