Sherlock Holmes and The Shadows of St Petersburg

<p>&quot;A psychological account of a crime&quot;--that&#39;s how Fyodor Dostoyevsky described his novel<em>&nbsp;Crime and Punishment &nbsp;</em>which tells of two horrific axe murders in St. Petersburg<em>.</em>&nbsp; It becomes much more than a mere &ldquo;account &rdquo; however when&nbsp;a pair of dead bodies turn up in London&rsquo;s East End their heads split open by an axe-blade.&nbsp; To Scotland Yard the crimes are murders to solve.&nbsp; To Sherlock Holmes they present an intriguing puzzle.&nbsp; But to the literary man Dr. John H. Watson they seem a deliberate re-staging of the brutal murders depicted in Dostoyevsky&rsquo;s narrative.&nbsp; If Watson is right what can be the purpose behind an actual recreation of the fictional killings?&nbsp;Blocking the answer to that question is a mysterious assortment of English and Russian eccentrics and one can only wonder if the startling revelation at the end will be&nbsp;dramatic enough to set matters straight.&nbsp;</p>