The Mournful Demeanour of Lieutenant of Boruvka
  • Published:
    Aug-1987 (Hardcover)
    Aug-1991 (Paperback)
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    Print
  • Main Genre:
    Suspense
  • Pages:
    292
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“Not only are the stories well written, they are constantly witty and engaging. . . . Boruvka has the logic of Aristotle and the tenacity of a bulldog.” ―Washington Post

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.
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    • Aug-1991
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0393307867
    • ISBN13: 9780393307863
    • First Edition
    • Aug-1987
    • W.W. Norton & Company
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0393024709
    • ISBN13: 9780393024708



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