The Gentle Axe by R.N.Morris



Porfiry Petrovich, the police investigator who worked on the case involving the deranged student Raskolnikov in Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, is given another life.

It is 1867 in St. Petersburg, Russia, on a cold winter morning.An elderly woman is scouring Petrovsky Park in search of a few sticks of firewood. What she finds instead is horrifying: a big, burly peasant hanging by a rope from a tree, with a blood-covered axe tucked into his belt. Nearby, she finds a suitcase. 
Packed inside is the body of a dwarf, with a deep head wound caused by an axe.

Conventional wisdom says that the peasant killed the dwarf and then, in a paroxysm of guilt and remorse, killed himself. 

That scenario is good enough for everyone but Porfiry.


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