(01/28/2008) Sins For Father Knox by Josef Skvorecky. New York. 1989. Norton. Translated From The Czech By Kaca Polackova Henley. keywords: Mystery Translated Czech Literature Eastern Europe. 268 pages. Jacket design by Linda Kosarin. 0393025128. January 1989.
The second book in Josef Skvorecky's Lieutenant Boruvka series.
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Readers of THE MOURNFUL DEMEANOUR OF LIEUTENANT BORUVKA will welcome the second book in the Boruvka series, although the lieutenant appears in only two of the ten stories The heroine in this volume is a nightclub singer called Eve Adam, a garrulous meddler in other people's affairs, Under contract from the State Concert Agency, she sings in various cities around the world. As Eve Adam travels and a crime occurs, each story violates one of the rules of the Detective Story Decalogue by Father Ronald A. Knox, probably the best-known set of rules for writing detective fiction. And so the task for the reader is two-fold: to decide which rule has been broken and to identify the murderer--in Prague, in Stockholm, in Rimini, in Berkeley, and in all the other cities. This book, newly translated, has never before appeared in English. Two more Boruvka books, of quite a different nature but equally remarkable, will follow.
JOSEF SKVORECKY was born in Bohemia, emigrated to Canada in 1968, and was professor of English at Erindale College, University of Toronto. He and his wife, the novelist Zdena Salivarova, ran a Czech-language publishing house, Sixty-Eight Publishers, in Toronto. Skvorecky's novels include DVORAK IN LOVE, THE ENGINEER OF HUMAN SOULS, COWARDS, MISS SILVER'S PAST, THE BASS SAXOPHONE, and THE MOURNFUL DEMEANOUR OF LIEUTENANT BORUVKA. He is the winner of the 1980 Neustadt International Prize for Literature and the 1984 Governor General's Award for Fiction in Canada.
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