The Sinner and the Saint by Kevin Birmingham review – a dazzling literary detective story How could Dostoevsky get inside the mind of a murderer to create a work of such ferocious fiction as Crime and Punishment? Literary comeback: Dostoevsky spent almost a decade in exile before returning to St Petersburg. Alex Christofi

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