A retelling of Crime and Pun­ish­ment intend­ed for younger readers. 

Raskol­nikov is a poor stu­dent liv­ing in St Peters­burg. Des­per­ate to escape his pover­ty, he mur­ders his pawn­bro­ker and her sis­ter, and flees with a few watch­es and bits of jew­ellery. Although at first nobody sus­pects him, his own con­science plagues him inces­sant­ly — and it isn’t long before a high­ly intel­li­gent police detec­tive by the name of Petro­vich begins to have his doubts about Raskol­nikov’s inno­cence, and is deter­mined to make him con­fess. For ages 8 – 12.