TUNNEL VISION; V. I. Warshawski Stories

New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Near Fine. SIGNED by the Author on the title page, tall 8vo, black quarter cloth with gold lettering on spine over dark red boards, archival mylar-protected black-&-red pictorial dust jacket (price-clipped) with a large woman in glossy silhouette on left watching a tiny shadowy homeless woman with babe-in-arms and two children in upper corner, red endpapers, 432 pages. Another memorable Warshawski mystery SIGNED by the multi-talented New York Times best-selling author.<br/> <br/> Sara Paretsky (born 1947), an American author of detective fiction, is best known for her novels based on the female private investigator, V.I. Warshawski. Paretsky created her as a female response to hard-boiled detectives such as Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe. In 1991 the film "V.I. Warshawski" was released starring Kathleen Turner. <br/> <br/> Author's 8th Warshawski novel. FINE COPY SIGNED by the Author. Dust jacket is clean and bright though has a bit of edgewear.<br/> <br/> <br/> Paretsky, who holds a doctorate in history from the University of Chicago, has transformed the image of women in the crime novel. The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. is also considered the founding mother of Sisters in Crime, which supports and promotes women in the mystery field.--(Wiki).