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Josef Škvorecký
[1924-2012]
Josef Boruvka, a sensitive police lieutenant coping with bureaucracy and Soviet invasion in 1960s Prague, Czechoslovakia:

Smutek porucíka Boruvky (1966)
The Mournful Demeanor of Lieutenant Boruvka1 (1974) [SS]

Hríchy pro pátera Knoxe (1973)
Sins for Father Knox (1988) [SS]

Konec porucíka Boruvky (1975)
The End of Lieutenant Boruvka (1989) [SS]

Návrat porucíka Boruvky (1980)
The Return of Lieutenant Boruvka (1990)
1. Two of 10 stories feature Lt. Boruvka.
Danny Smiricki, a jazz saxophone player, teacher, and observer of post-WW2 life in Czechoslovakia and Canada2:

Lvíce (1969)
Miss Silver’s Past (1974)

Mirákl (1972)
The Miracle Game (1990)

Dve vrazdy v mém dvojím zivote (1996)
Two Murders in My Double Life (1999)

2. Danny also appears in several non-criminous books, including The Cowards (1970), The Engineer of Human Souls (1984), and The Republic of Whores: A Fragment from the Time of the Cults (1994).
Non-series:
Nevysvetlitelný príbeh aneb Vyprávení Questa Firma Sicula (1998)
An Inexplicable Story, Or, the Narrative of Questus Firmus Siculus (2002)
 
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