The Investigation

Copyright

English translation copyright © 1974 by The Continuum Publishing Corporation

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Original edition: Sledztwo, Wydawnictwo Literackie, Cracow, 1959, 1969

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Lem, Stanislaw.

The investigation.

Translation of: Sledztwo.

“A Harvest / HBJ Book.”

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Seabury Press, © 1974.

I. Title.

PG7158.L39S4513 1986 891.8’537 85-24841

ISBN 0-15-645158-1

Designed by Carol Basen

Printed in the United States of America

First Harvest/HBJ edition 1986

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