Part 1, Chapter 7
The murder itself—Raskolnikov strikes Alyona with the axe, then in panic kills the gentle Lizaveta who walks in. The unplanned second murder shatters his theory immediately.
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From Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
The double murder of the pawnbroker Alyona Ivanovna and her innocent sister Lizaveta is the novel's central crime, executed with terrible clumsiness and accident.
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