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Innocence : or, murder on Steep Street / Heda Margolius Kovály ; translated from the Czech by Alex Zucker.

by Kovály, Heda, 1919-2010.

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Soho Crime, c2015.

Motion picture theaters -- Fiction.

Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction.

Czechslovakia -- Fiction.

9781616954963 (hc.)

Nevina. English English

Alternate title:

Murder on Steep Street

xvii, 234 p. ; 22 cm

"First published in Czech as Nevina in 1985 by Index, Koln, Germany. Second Czech edition published in 2013 by Mlada fronta, Praha"--T.p. verso.

Translated from the Czech.

"In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel. Set in and around a cinema where a murder was recently committed, Innocence follows the unfolding of the investigation while telling the stories of the women who work there as ushers, each of whom is forced to support herself in difficult circumstances. As the novel brings this group alive, it tells their various life stories that have brought them to this job, the secrets they share with one another, and the secrets they keep. When the detective trying to solve the first murder is found slain by the cinema, all of their secrets come into the light."--Publisher.

Mystery fiction.

Czech fiction -- Translations into English.

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