num_pages: 256
description: 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.
Page Numbers Source ISBN: 1569472556
language: English
title: The False Inspector Dew
titlecomplete: The False Inspector Dew
characters: Lydia the murder victim, Inspector Dew (False) a/k/a Walter the dentist
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Thriller, Mystery Thriller, Literature, Historical Mystery, Historical Fiction, Crime
ratings_count: 1394
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: CWA Gold Dagger, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: The CWA Dagger of Daggers
publisher: Macmillan