Deadlock

SUMMARY

The story is about a brave detective woman named Vic Warshawski who is not interested in having a family. Her life changed somehow when her cousin died in an accident by falling under aship, Vic was very fond of him and she     doesn´t understand how a strong young man can just slip and fall into the water like that, she doesn´t believe it either but she promised herself to find outthe truth.
Bernard was the real name of Vic´s cousin but everybody knew him as Boom Boom   he was a former ice-hockey star who used to play with the Black Hawks until he shattered his left ankle, thatis why he got a job at Eudora Grain Company which is a great lake shipping industry
After Boom Boom´s funeral Vic met a pretty young woman who said she was Boom Boom´s girlfriend named PaigeCarrington, she was a dancer. When Vic found her in Boom Boom´s apartment shuffling papers   she started to suspect her.
The next day Vic met Eudora´s vice-president Clayton Phillips, she wanted him to showher where her cousin went in, but he could just said to her the same old thing, that is her cousin just slipped and fell in. Later he led her to Niels Grafalk the ship´s owner, and she started to metmore important people   as the chief engineer on the Lucella Wieser (the ship where her cousin
fell) and Martin Bledsoe the owner of the Pole Star Line which included Lucella, when those men startedto talk she found some strange friction between them.

The other day when Vic return to Boom Boom´s apartment she found a mess and the watchman was dead, the detective went after Paige to asked hersome questions.
When things got more misterious Vic talked to Boom Boom´s secretary and got some important documents about her cousin´s job.
The next day Vic went to Eudora Grain again but shecouldn´t found out something new, there Bledsoe invited her to dinner but when she returned to the company to picked her car up, she had an owful accident, the car brakes   failed and she woke up in an...