The mournful demeanour of Lieutenant Boruvka
By: by Josef Skvorecky ; translated by Rosemary Kavan, Kaca Polackova and George Theiner.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 1988
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Detective and mystery stories, Canadian (Czech) -- Translations into English.; Detective and mystery stories, English -- Translations from Czech.
Work titles: Smutek poručíka Borůvky.
Notes: Translation of: Smutek poručíka Borůvky.
Table of contents: title: The supernatural powers of Lieutenant Boruvka.; title: That sax solo.; title: The scientific method.; title: Death on needlepoint.; title: Whose deduction?; title: The case of the horizontal trajectory.; title: A tried and proven method.; title: Falling light.; title: Aristotelian logic.; title: The end of an old tom-cat.; title: His easiest case.; title: Crime in a girls' high school.