In this Americanized retelling of Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment, a medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark to whom he owes money. After the killing, he's tormented by guilt over what he's done. A police captain, who's convinced the student committed the crime but can't prove it for lack of evidence, plays on the young man's guilt in order to get him to confess to the crime.—[email protected]

A medical student--broke, hungry and desperate for money--murders a loan shark. After the killing he is tormented by guilt over what he's done. A detective, who knows the student committed the crime but can't prove it, plays on the young man's guilt in order to get him to confess to the crime.—JohnHowardReid

Larry Crain is a poor student in his final term of medical school. Already struggling financially including being behind in rent, Larry may reach the last straw when the scholarship for his final term has been pulled. Feeling desperate, Larry, in order to commit a theft in order to get out of his financial hole, instead commits murder, he unable to take the money in the process. Captain Burke leads the murder investigation. Subsequently, Larry's life seems to take an upturn. In an act of kindness on his part, he meets a young woman named Eileen Stevens, with who he begins a relationship. He receives two financial windfalls, not only enough to cover his back rent and more, but also cover his tuition for the final term. And in the process, he also receives academic recognition. But as Captain Burke conducts his investigation, with his second in command, Detective Shaefer, always seeming to be on his tail, Larry may crumble under the guilt regardless of what Burke and Schaefer discover.—Huggo