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.