Škvorecký, Josef. <br/><br/>
The mournful demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka / 
Josef Skvorecky 
 - New York :  W. W. Norton & Company,  c1987 
 - 288 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>I. The supernatural powers of lirutenant boruvka -- II. The sax solo -- III. The scientific method -- IV. Death on needlepoint -- V. Whose deduction? -- VI. The case of the horizontal trajectory -- VII. A tried and proven method -- VIII. Falling light -- IX. Aristotelian logic -- X. The end of an old tom-cat -- XI. His easiest case -- XII. Crime in a girls' high school. 
<br/><br/> Czechoslovak police force Lieutenant Boruvka, a pensive, conscience-striken man driven to melancholy by the fiendish truths of murder, is wide awake to the strange methods of murder he encounters, in this collection of twelve tales. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>393024709 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>DETECTIVE AND MYSTERY -- FICTION
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>FIC .S58 1987