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A pensive, conscience-stricken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, the Czechoslovak policeman Lieutenant Boruvka is a notable new member of the brilliant-eccentric-detective literary tradition. Twelve bizarre tales--to be read as a continuous account--involve theatrical people, musicians, and mountaineers, who lead the lieutenant, and the reader, on an ingenious chase through the paths of crime.Josef Skvorecky is the author of 'The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka', published 1991 under ISBN 9780393307863 and ISBN 0393307867.
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