Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street

Mystery & Suspense, International, Fiction & Literature, Crime, Women Sleuths
Cover of the book Innocence; or, Murder on Steep Street by Heda Margolius Kovály, Soho Press
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Author: Heda Margolius Kovály ISBN: 9781616954970
Publisher: Soho Press Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: Soho Crime Language: English
Author: Heda Margolius Kovály
ISBN: 9781616954970
Publisher: Soho Press
Publication: June 2, 2015
Imprint: Soho Crime
Language: English

This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia.

1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.

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This rediscovered masterpiece captures a chilling moment in the stifling early days of Communist Czechoslovakia.

1950s Prague is a city of numerous daily terrors, of political tyranny, corruption and surveillance. There is no way of knowing whether one’s neighbor is spying for the government, or what one’s supposed friend will say to a State Security agent under pressure. A loyal Party member might be imprisoned or executed as quickly as a traitor; innocence means nothing for a person caught in a government trap. When a little boy is murdered at the cinema, the ensuing investigation sheds a little too much light on the personal lives of the cinema’s female ushers, each of whom is hiding a dark secret of her own.

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