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The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka: Detective Tales Hardcover - 1987
by Josef Skvorecky; Kaca Polackova (Translator); George Theiner (Translator)
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- Title The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka: Detective Tales
- Author Josef Skvorecky; Kaca Polackova (Translator); George Theiner (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First American E
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NEW YORK
- Date 1987
- ISBN 9780393024708 / 0393024709
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.5 x 5.76 x 1.09 in (21.59 x 14.63 x 2.77 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 86022239
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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New York. 1987. Norton. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0393024709. Translated from the Czech by Rosemary Kavan. Kaca Polackova & George Theiner. 288 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design By Linda Kosarin. keywords: Literature Translated Czech Eastern Europe Mystery. FROM THE PUBLISHER - The first in a series of linked detective tales featuring a highly intelligent member of the Czechoslovak police force and his agreeable colleagues. Many of the tales are delightful parodies of standard' mysteries, and most are set in the author's native Czechoslovakia. Lieutenant Boruvka himself is splendidly realized - a pensive, conscience-stricken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, yet always wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters. Twelve bizarre plots involve theatrical people or musicians, and one concerns a band of mountaineers. Its solution reveals pent-up emotions of love, jealousy, and envy. Other cases involve blackmail, apparent suicide,…
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