The Review of Contemporary Fiction, September 22nd, 2001
Josef Skvorecky. Two Murders in My Double Life. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001. 175 pp. $22.00.
Josef Skvorecky's new novel is playful in form, pitting two story lines against each other to create effects at once tragic and comic, disturbing and absurd. As the novel opens the reader is introduced to the first story line: a murder mystery set against the backdrop of academic politics and pettiness at the fictional Evandale College, where the narrator, a Czech exile, teaches classes in detective-fiction writing. Dorothy Sayers, a student in the narrator's class and a member of the campus polic...
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