[books 2011] Indemnity Only

[inulro]

19. Indemnity Only by Sara Paretsky

The first of the long-running VI Warshawski detective novels. I grabbed another random one from the library last year or the year before and found it to be perfectly acceptable disposable bus reading. This was pretty much the same.

I can't believe they've been going since 1982!

Disposable is probably unfair - both of the books I've read so far are a little meatier than that, but quite formulaic.

Interestingly, although my first reaction is "wants to be Raymond Chandler", the only fictional detective mentioned by the private eye in the book is Dorothy Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey.

Comments

[dali-muse.livejournal.com]

One of my classes at Northeastern University was called Feminism and the Novel and we read Dorothy Sayers Gaudy Night and one of the VI Warshowski novels. (I'm blanking on which one at the moment.) Loved both of them for different reasons.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

I haven't ready Gaudy Night since about 1992/3, but recall loving it unconditionally. I tried another Lord Peter Wimsey novel a couple years ago and it wasn't remotely in the same league.