Deadlock - VI Warshawski by Sarah Paretsky

Deadlock - VI Warshawski

The crime investigations of Sara Paretsky's Chicago private eye VI Warshawski starring Kathleen Turner.

Sara Paretsky has created one of the most popular female sleuths in modern crime-fiction. VI Warshawski is a strong female character in a male-dominated world. She’s comfortable packing heat and trailing nasty suspects, but never loses touch with her basic femininity.

Paretsky says of her Warshawski: "I was troubled by the way women were portrayed in (detective fiction) they always seemed either evil or powerless. I thought it was time for a tough, smart, likeable female private investigator".
Kathleen Turner also starred in the same role in the 1991 film 'VI Warshawski'.

Director: Janet Whitaker

Dramatised by Michelene Wandor

CAST
VI Warshawski ...... Kathleen Turner
Lotty Herschel ...... Eleanor Bron
Bobby Mallory ...... William Hootkins
Murray ...... Kerry Shale
Martin Bledsoe ...... James Aubrey
Mike Sheridan ...... Keith Drinkel
Nils Greyfalk ...... Peter Marinker
Paige Carrington ...... Teresa Gallagher
Janine Phillips ...... Shelley Thompson
Janet ...... Jill Graham
Captain Beamis ...... William Dufris
Pierre Bouchard ...... Matthew Morgan
Elsie ...... Melanie Hudson
Nurse ...... Geraldine Fitzgerald

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 1993

1. A Hero's Death
At the funeral of her ice-hockey hero cousin, private eye V I Warshawski gets suspicious. Was his death really an accident?

2.Down the Hatches
Private eye VI Warshawski's dead cousin "Boom Boom" knew too much about something.
His apartment is burgled, leading to another murder...

3. Bedtime Stories
VI Warshawski manages to call Mallory from the hospital - so he can find out who tampered with her car...

4. Deadlock
VI Warshawski flies to Canada to continue her investigation on the giant freighter the Lucella Weisser.
But she's in for a shock when they sail through the Great Lakes Lock.

5. Pavane for a Dead Hockey Player
Everyone wants private eye VI Warshawski off the case.

She appears to be getting closer to solving it - but then the next body is found...

6. The Long Goodbye
Clayton Phillips's body could only have got into the hold of the Gertrude Rutton one way.
VI uses the same vehicle to confront the villain and ends up swimming for her life.
Conclusion of Sara Paretsky's thriller.