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050 _aFIC .S58 1987
100 _aŠkvorecký, Josef.
_eauthor
245 4 _aThe mournful demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka /
_cJosef Skvorecky
260 _aNew York :
_bW. W. Norton & Company,
_cc1987
300 _a288 pages ;
_c22 cm.
505 _aI. 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.
520 _aCzechoslovak 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.
650 _aDETECTIVE AND MYSTERY -- FICTION
700 _aKavan, Rosemary.;Polackova, Kaca.;Theiner, George.
_etranslator;translator;translator
942 _2lcc
_cFIC
999 _c5828
_d5828