The false Inspector Dew
Lovesey, Peter2014
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Alma Webster loves her dentist, and decides the only way forward is the murder of his wife. The opportunity arises during a transatlantic voyage, allowing the dentist to step in as 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.
Main title:
The false Inspector Dew / Peter Lovesey.
Author:
Lovesey, Peter, author
Work:
Imprint:
London : Sphere, 2014.
Collation:
339 pages ; 20 cm
Notes:
Originally published: New York: Pantheon Books, 1982.
ISBN:
9780751553574 (pbk)
Dewey class:
823.914CRI
LC class:
PR6062.O86
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
299123