The False Inspector Dew

It is 1921, and Alma Webster, a reader of romances, is passionately in love with her dentist, Walter Baranov. There is only one foreseeable outcome: the murder of his wife. Inspired by the real-life Dr Crippen case, they plot a way to achieve it perfectly aboard the ocean liner, Mauretania. With a fine sense of irony, Baranov takes the identity of Inspector Dew, Crippen's nemesis. But when a murder is reported aboard the ship and 'Inspector Dew' is invited to investigate, the complications begin. Listed in The Times ' 100 Best Crime Novels of the Twentieth Century.

Product details

• Authors: Peter Lovesey
• Publisher: Sphere
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2016
• EAN: 9780751553574
• ISBN: 978-0-7515-5357-4
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 197 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural, FICTION / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Crime, FICTION / Thrillers / Suspense, Thriller / suspense fiction, Thriller / suspense, Crime and mystery: police procedural