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Innocence; Or, Murder on Steep Street, by Heda Margoulis Kovály
The starting position of the police in 1950s Prague is that everyone is guilty of something. If they can't find evidence of a crime, it just means they're not looking hard enough. It's a wonder that there are enough detectives to investigate actual murders, since so many seem busy trying to catch people committing "political crimes." In Innocence; Or, Murder on Steep Street, by Heda Margoulis Kovály, the novel's protagonist, Helena Nováková, is the unfortunate target of Captain Nedoma—before Nedoma turns up stabbed to death on the street where Helena works...
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