Article: Sleuthing Czech-style; Naive doctor, old Prague star in crime novel.(BOOKS)

Byline: Jack Matthews, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES

The doctor referred to in the title is Dr. Fenimore, the novel's protagonist who is that familiar fictional type, a physician who is also an amateur detective. This is the fourth in the series of Robin Hathaway's Dr. Fenimore "mystective" novels, and in it, the doctor's medical practice is casually sacrificed to his crime-solving hobby, very much as the genre requires.

Fenimore lives in Philadelphia, but his mother was Czech, and after several failed attempts to phone his cousin in Prague, he decides to fly there and find out why she doesn't answer his calls. This is the beginning of the mystery, for ...

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