The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka - Softcover

Skvorecky, Josef, Wilson, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0886192617 ISBN 13: 9780886192617

Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers, 1990

Synopsis

This is the last in a sequence of detective novels in which the author offers the reader a sly and devious murder mystery as well as a comic confrontation of the Old World and the New that pokes fun at both sides of the cultural divide.

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Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Czech

From Library Journal:

Boruvka, the melancholy Prague detective (of the End of Lieutenant Boruvka, LJ 5/1/9 and others), has escaped from the Communist Czechoslovakia to Toronto. There he helps to solve a murder of a beautiful, promiscuous woman, together with her stockbroker brother and his girlfriend, who runs a feminist detective agency. What looks like a simple crime of passion turns into an intricate whodunit, involving Czech spies, Nazi war criminals, hired assassins, would-be aristocrats, and three waves of Czech emigres. This satisfying crime story, the fourth and the best in the Boruvka series, is also a playful, witty, and humorous look at the foibles of the Canadians and the immigrant Czechs and the confrontation of the two cultures. Recommended.
- Marie Bednar, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lester & Orpen Dennys, Publishers
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0886192617
• ISBN 13: 9780886192617
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1