The false Inspector Dew

By Peter Lovesey

Subjects: Murderers, Ocean travel, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Impostors and imposture, Fugitives from justice, Fiction, crime, Transatlantic voyages, Mauretania (Ship)

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).