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.