Blacklist is a 2003 novel by crime writer Sara Paretsky. It features Private Investigator V. I. Warshawski,[1] and was awarded the 2004 Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger.
Plot
Chicago private detective V.I. Warshawski is asked by a longtime client to look into his mother's suspicion that trespassers are living in the empty mansion her father built. V.I. discovers a corpse on the property that is found to be a young black journalist who was writing about members of a 1930s federal theater project and one member in particular who was blacklisted during the Communist witch hunt. V.I. is hired by the journalist's sister to investigate his death.
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