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The greatest Russian stories of crime and suspense / edited by Otto Penzler.

Title
The greatest Russian stories of crime and suspense / edited by Otto Penzler.
Publication
New York, NY : Pegasus Books, 2010.

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Penzler, Otto
Description
xii, 354 p.; 24 cm.
Summary
Collects short stories from Russian authors, including Tolstoy, Chekhov, and Pushkin.
Subject
  • Detective and mystery stories, Russian > Translations into English
  • Crime > Russia > Fiction
  • Noir fiction
  • Short stories
  • Suspense fiction, Russian > Translations into English
  • Short stories, Russian > Translations into English
Genre/Form
  • Detective and mystery stories.
  • Noir fiction
  • Short stories.
  • Detective and mystery fiction.
  • Thrillers (Fiction)
  • Detective and mystery fiction
  • Short stories
  • Translations
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction / Otto Penzler -- Tabletalk, 1882 / Boris Akunin -- Murder (from Crime and punishment) / Fyodor Dostoevsky -- Genka Paltsev, son of Dmitri / Vil Lipatov -- The portrait / Nikolai Gogol -- The Swedish match ; Sleepy ; The head-gardener's story ; The bet / Anton Chekhov -- The queen of spades / Alexander Pushkin -- The hunting knife / Lev Sheinen -- The gentleman from San Francisco / Ivan Bunin -- The strangler / P. Nikitin -- Revenge / Vladimir Nabokov -- The sentry / Nikolai Lyeskov -- A strange murderer / Maxim Gorky -- The crime of Dr. Garine / Boris Sokoloff -- The overcoat / Nikolai Gogol -- God sees the truth, but waits ; Too dear / Leo Tolstoy.
ISBN
  • 9781605981352
  • 1605981354
OCLC
  • 601103649
  • SCSB-11086709
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library