<p>'A psychological account of a crime'--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>