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A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense
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Author
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Anton Chekhov. Peter Sekirin, trans.
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Publisher
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Pegasus
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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8.25
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5.5
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0.95
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ISBN
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9781605980591
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Pages/Publication Date
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321/2009
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Daedalus Item Code
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21053
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Description
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The great Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov began his literary career as a crime and mystery writer. The 42 stories collected here—originally published in periodicals and literary journals from 1880–90 and largely unavailable in English before this 2008 translation—offer psychological suspense, dark humor, and crimes twisted enough to satisfy even hardboiled mystery fans. Yet Chekhov's penetrating, absurdist insight is already in evidence, from the story of the death of a young amateur playwright at the hands of an editor who hates bad writing to that of a drunken civil servant who ends up trapped in a graveyard.
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