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The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka
The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka Author:Josef Skvorecky From Canada's internationally acclaimed writer Josef Skvorecky comes the first volume in a series of linked detective tales featuring Lieutenant Boruvka -- a highly intelligent member of the Czechoslovakian police force. — First published more than thirty years ago, The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka introduces the sad lieutenant and... more » his agreeable colleagues to all who relish ingenious puzzles. Readers will encounter twelve bizarre plots and a cast of intriguing characters ranging from showgirls and musicians to mountaineers and models. Many of these timeless tales are delightful parodies of "standard" mysteries and most are set in the author's native Czech Republic. Lieutenant Boruvka himself is splendidly realized -- a pensive, concsience-stricken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, yet always wide awake to the strange methods he encounters. Although comprised of separate stories, the book is intended to be read as a continuous account -- in the last tale, the reader learns the secret of Boruvka's own mysterious past.« less