A gentle axe : a St Petersburg mystery
Book |
Faber & Faber,
London :
c2007.
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About
"What became of the shrewd police detective who harried and trapped the double-axe-murderer Rodion Raskolnikov? In A Gentle Axe, the enquiries of Porfiry Petrovich continue, through a richly-textured historical crime novel that explores the darkest reserves of the Russian soul. It is St Petersburg in the winter of 1867. Two frozen bodies are found in an isolated corner of Petrovsky Park. The first - that of a dwarf - has been packed neatly in a suitcase, a deep wound splitting his skull in two. The second body, of a burly peasant, is hanging from a nearby tree, a bloody axe tucked into his belt. Porfiry Petrovich - investigating his first murder case since the homicides recounted in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment - suspects the truth may be more complex than others wish him to believe. Porfiry's investigation leads him from the squalid tenements, brothels and drinking dens of the city's Haymarket district to an altogether more genteel stratum of society, in a thriller that is atmospheric and tense from its dramatic opening to its shocking climax."--Back cover.
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Details
- ISBN: 9780571232055 (trade pbk.)
- ISBN: 0571232051
- Physical Description: 356 p. ; 25 cm.print
- Publisher: London : Faber & Faber, c2007.
- General Note: Features the detective from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and punishment.