(suggestion?) The Woman in White X Crime and Punishment
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(suggestion?) The Woman in White X Crime and Punishment
I am a big fan of Arthur Conan Doyle and his Sherock Holmes series. Though I've wandering about the old mistery books, how they were conceived before the 19th century.
I have done my research and I've got to these two titles
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Please, if you've read one of them, tell me what you think. Also, if you know another title worth exploring, let me know
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This is definitely not a crime story. This is the story of a guy who committed a double murder, and then admitted his crime. This is a psychological and philosophical prose, a book about bad conscience and regret.Steph K wrote: ↑02 May 2017, 14:49 Crime and Punishment I have read to completion and loved. Like the previous commenter said, it's not a traditional mystery because the story is told through the eyes of the murderer, Raskolnikov. The reader knows from the beginning he did it. It is a very interesting book. If you are interested in classic Russian literature, I recommend all of Dostoyevsky's work.
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Strangely enough no one mentioned Poe's Auguste Dupin as he was an inspiration for Holmes, Christie's Poirot AND a detective from "Crime and Punishment". Dupin is featured in "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (which actually is the first modern detective story) and a couple of other stories.
Another famous character, a prototype for Holmes was Émile Gaboriau's Monsieur Lecoq, but I've never read him, so I can't say much about him.
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