The false Inspector Dew
By: Peter Lovesey
Publisher: Sphere
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 339
ISBN-13: 9780751553574
Subjects: Fugitives from justice; Ocean travel; Mauretania (Ship); Impostors and imposture; Transatlantic voyages; Murderers; Fiction
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." (publisher).
Notes: Originally published: London: Macmillan, 1982.