Word: warshawsky
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Female detectives are usually tough (Sara Paretsky's V.I. Warshawski) or cute (Alexander McCall Smith's Precious Ramotswe). Maisie, whose card reads PSYCHOLOGIST AND INVESTIGATOR, is neither: she's a cerebral, vulnerable inquisitor who takes up sleuthing in the late 1930s to heal the trauma she experienced as a nurse in the Great War. Set in an era when women were grappling with modernity, Pardonable Lies, the third of this young series, sends Maisie on a quest for truth, during which secrets and lies lead instead to self-discovery. --By Johanna McGeary
...Shaws pay their greatest homage, though, to Chicago writers. A guest can curl up in the queen-size bed in the Sara Paretsky Room and get lost in a V.I. Warshawski mystery. Or creep in on little cat feet to the Carl Sandburg Room. The Mike Royko Room, with its antique three-quarter bed, is best suited for the lone traveler, while the Studs Turkel Suite in the carriage house provides a break from Working...