| Blacklist | |
| Author: | Sara Paretsky |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | V. I. Warshawski #11 |
| Genre: | Crime novel |
| Publisher: | Putnam |
| Release Date: | September 29, 2003 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 448 pp. |
| Isbn: | 0-399-15085-4 |
| Dewey: | 813/.54 21 |
| Congress: | PS3566.A647 B55 2003 |
| Oclc: | 51726908 |
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.
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.