A Night in the Cemetery: And Other Stories of Crime and Suspense by Anton Chekhov and translated by Peter Sekirin is a book filled with the short stories of Anton Chekhov that have a genre of crime or mystery. Anton Chekhov started his writing career with this genre and later returned to it near the end of his life. In this book there are many short stories including A Night in the Cemetery, What You Usually Find in Novels, The Conversation of a Man with a Dog, and Conversation of a Drunk Man with a Sober Devil. In A Night in the Cemetery a man gets drunk as a duck at a New Year’s party. He leaves the party around two and finds himself in a cemetery. He soon hears footsteps drawing closer, then a loud howling sound coming from the creature that walked towards him. Then he finds a heavy hand on his shoulder and wakes up the next day in prison. He listens to a conversation between two men outside his cell and learns that they found him drunk on top of a tombstone with a dog howling next to him. In What You Usually Find in Novels Chekhov makes up a few common characters and events that you find in stories and lists them in a way so a small story is told. It is a funny short story with no real plot. In Conversation of a Drunk Man with a Sober Devil a man is drinking and soon a green devil appears before him. They talk of the devil’s occupation and take a few shots. Soon the devil is crying and talking of what’s wrong with his life and fall the man soon falls asleep afterwards. When he wakes up the devil has left to go back to his regular life. I really liked this book and all of the short stories in it. I would recommend this book to just about anyone that can read.