The Detective's Game

Originally by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Reimagined from the vantage point of Porfiry Petrovich

"He knew from the first conversation. The game was making him confess."

Raskolnikov thinks he is the smartest person in St. Petersburg. Porfiry Petrovich knows better. This reimagining follows the detective who saw through the 'extraordinary man' theory from the very first interview — and chose to play the longest, most psychologically devastating game of cat-and-mouse in literature.

Pages

350

Print Price

$24.99

Kindle Price

$9.99

Genre

Psychological Thriller

Why This Vantage Point

Crime and Punishment is the most-taught Russian novel globally. Porfiry's interrogation scenes are already the most gripping chapters. A full novel from his perspective transforms philosophical fiction into a psychological thriller.

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The Original

"I consider you one of those who would stand and smile at their torturer while he cuts their entrails out."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

The Reimagined — Porfiry Petrovich's Voice

The young man sat across from me, and I knew within thirty seconds. Not because of evidence — I had almost none. I knew because of the way he held himself: too still, too controlled, like a man who has rehearsed being natural. Murderers are not what you expect. The stupid ones confess immediately. The clever ones never stop talking. But the dangerous ones — the ones who believe they had the right — they sit very, very still and watch you with eyes that are calculating whether you are worthy of the truth. I poured him tea. I smiled. I asked about his article on extraordinary men. And I began the longest game of my career.

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