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A Night in the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime & Suspense

10 best books like A Night in the Cemetery and Other Stories of Crime & Suspense (Anton Chekhov): Equal Danger, The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917, Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime, The Horizontal Man, Six Against the Yard, Somebody at the Door, Via delle Oche, Nervous People and Other Satires, A Lear of the Steppes

Equal Danger
AuthorLeonardo Sciascia
ISBN1590170628
District Attorney Varga is shot dead. Then Judge Sanza is killed. Then Judge Azar. Are these random murders, or part of a conspiracy? Inspector Rogas thinks he might know, but as soon as he makes progress he is transferred and encouraged to pin the crimes on the Left. And yet how committed are the cynical,...
The Shadow of the Winter Palace: Russia's Drift to Revolution 1825-1917
AuthorEdward Crankshaw
ISBN0306809400
Exactly 175 years ago, on the Senate Square in St. Petersburg, a failed uprising ignited a process that would, one red October, finally sweep the autocracy away. The Shadow of the Winter Palace recounts an extraordinary century of Russian history, a politically tempestuous time that was also a Golden...
Resorting to Murder: Holiday Mysteries
AuthorMartin Edwards
Holidays offer us the luxury of getting away from it all. So, in a different way, do detective stories. This collection of vintage mysteries combines both those pleasures. From a golf course at the English seaside to a pension in Paris, and from a Swiss mountain resort to the cliffs of Normandy, this new...
The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime
AuthorMichael Sims
ISBN0143105663
Take a trip back to a time when criminals armed themselves with wit rather than with guns, and the pinnacle of crime-fighting technology was represented by Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. Edited by award-winning author and editor Michael Sims, The Penguin Book of Gaslight Crime presents, for...
The Horizontal Man
AuthorHelen Eustis
ISBN0140007180
This was a weird book, just weird.

First off, it's about a popular, handsome, debonair, poetic, young male teacher of English literature at a posh or elite girls' college circa 1943 or so. He's found dead, bludgeoned by a fireplace poker. (Pokers can come in so handy.) This happens on the very...
Six Against the Yard
AuthorDorothy L. Sayers
ISBN0425117782
Extremely interesting and thought provoking! 'Six against the Yard' takes six of the most well loved crime writers of the day and challenges each of them to write a 'perfect crime story.' This is then analysed by a real, retired detective who informs us whether or not the ideas are credible enough to be...
Somebody at the Door
AuthorRaymond Postgate
ISBN1448214297
One bleak Friday evening in January, 1942, Councillor Henry Grayling boards an overcrowded train with £120 in cash wages to be paid out the next day to the workers of Barrow and Furness Chemistry and Drugs Company. When Councillor Grayling finally finds the only available seat in a third-class carriage,...
Via delle Oche
AuthorCarlo Lucarelli
ISBN8838912599
Via delle Oche, a Bologna, è una strada rinomata. Prima della Legge Merlin, vi erano le case chiuse. Tra mercoledì 14 aprile 1948 e giovedì 15 luglio 1948 (un pugno di mesi che include svolte decisive: le elezioni del Quarantotto, l'attentato a Togliatti, Bartali maglia gialla) un'inchiesta di...
Nervous People and Other Satires
AuthorMikhail Zoshchenko
ISBN0253201926
Typical targets of Zoshchenko's satire are the Soviet bureaucracy, crowded conditions in communal apartments, marital infidelities and the rapid turnover in marriage partners, and "the petty-bourgeois mode of life, with its adulterous episodes, lying, and similar nonsense." His devices are...
A Lear of the Steppes
AuthorIvan Turgenev
ISBN1410103080
“Una sera d’inverno eravamo riuniti in sei presso un vecchio amico, compagno d’università, e parlavamo di Shakespeare e delle sue meravigliose creazioni, di quei suoi personaggi poderosi che rappresentano così mirabilmente la natura umana, così pieni di verità e di freschezza, che...
The Negro of Peter the Great
AuthorAlexander Pushkin
Gelirleriyle çocuklara kitap hediye ettiğim YouTube kanalımda Puşkin'in hayatı, bütün kitapları ve kronolojik okuma sırası hakkında bilgi edinebilirsiniz:
https://youtu.be/nljKaOPQcBI

Yarım kalmış olmasına rağmen Puşkin okumak isteyenler için en iyi...
A Red Flower: A Story
AuthorVsevolod Garshin
ISBN1436746949
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment...
Twenty-Six Men and a Girl and Other Stories
AuthorMaxim Gorky
ISBN1589636546
Maxim Gorky is the pen name of Aleksei Maksimovich Peshkov -- orphaned at the age of nine, he was raised by his grandmother, a story-teller, who imprinted on him a love for tales and travel. All of his varied jobs and the places, people and situations he encountered on his way can be found in his stories....
Thesmophoriazusae
AuthorAristophanes
ISBN0199265275
Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering...
Seasons of Death
AuthorMarlene Mitchell
ISBN0982006756
In the fall of 1969 in the mountains of eastern Tennessee, a poor backwoods farmer and his wife were brutally shot and killed by four drunken hunters, along with their three dogs, horse and two fawns. The farmer's two young sons managed to escape but were unable to identify the killers. Now decades later,...
Town Smokes: Stories
AuthorPinckney Benedict
ISBN0749395567
Town Smokes is a book of short stories, which often centered on the interactions between rural people and animals—which particularly interested me. We see occasional compassion, such as that of a family that became too attached to the rabbits they bred to sell them for meat, but the majority of these...
Our Honored Dead
AuthorLawrence Kelter
ISBN1480130852
A bullet races toward Detective Stephanie Chalice, a bullet meant to kill not one, but two. And so it begins: Chalice is pushed to her physical and mental limits as she investigates four murders, each with its own unique criminal signature. The murder trail takes her from Ground Zero in lower Manhattan...
Nihilist Girl
AuthorSofia Kovalevskaya
ISBN0873527909
First published in Switzerland in 1892, finally printed in Russia in 1906, and never before translated into English, Nihilist Girl is the coming-of-age story of Vera Barantsova, a young aristocrat who longs to devote her life to a cause. Her privileged world is radically changed by Alexander I's emancipation...
Death Comes Uninvited
AuthorKen Lang
ISBN1480015814
"Life as a homicide detective is a fast-paced whirlwind down death’s corridor."

In the final installment of an extraordinary glimpse into the innermost workings of a homicide unit, Death Comes Uninvited carries you through the rigorous pace of a homicide detective’s life. Race from...
Tales of O. Henry
AuthorO. Henry
ISBN0880299428
The gift of the Magi --
A cosmopolite in a café --
The skylight room --
Man about town --
The cop and the anthem --
The love-philtre of Ikey Schoenstein --
Mammon and the archer --
Springtime à la carte --
From the cabby's seat --
An unfinished story --
The...
The Secret Adventures of Charlotte Brontë
AuthorLaura Joh Rowland
ISBN1590200330
Laura Joh Rowland's San Ichiro novels have enthralled thousands of readers. Now the author turns her gifts for historical fiction to Victorian England and the famous and fascinating Bronte family.

THE SECRET ADVENTURES OF CHARLOTTE BRONTË, by Laura Joh Rowland (author of the Sano Ichiro...
The Untouched Crime
AuthorZijin Chen
ISBN1503937399
For three years, a serial killer has walked among the citizens of Hangzhou, China. With each new body come the same clues: a jump rope, a cigarette, and a slip of paper that says, “Come and get me.”

In the same city, Luo Wen wanders into a park just as a young woman stabs a local thug to death in...
Mr Campion and Others
AuthorMargery Allingham
ISBN0140087834
An enthusiastic equestrian who lives for hunting foxes, pretty women, and other people's jewelry ... A resilient nonagenarian who keeps returning from the dead to scam unsuspecting insurance companies... A safecracker who prides himself on professional incompetence ... Now gentleman detective...
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