The Minotaur’s Head: An Inspector Mock Investigation
by Marek Krajewski
One of the cover reviews stated that this is “as noir as it gets.” No objection to that assessment. An interesting, but dark, male view of the world in Poland of the 1930s. There’s a mystery to be solved about a sordid murder. he investigators are conservative, but typical white collar operatives, men with large appetites for women, food, and drink. Some of the scenes in the story take place in Lwow, Poland and include many of the mathematicians of that famous school of mathematicians, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lw%C3%B3w_School_of_Mathematics . Names I learned in graduate school and whose work I studied tangentially – Mazur, Banach, Ulam, and Kac. I’m looking forward to reading other books by Krajewiski
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