# The False Inspector Dew

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- Book: [The False Inspector Dew](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey/the-false-inspector-dew) ([The False Inspector Dew.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey/the-false-inspector-dew.md))
- Authors: [Peter Lovesey](https://www.bookquiver.com/peter-lovesey)
- Publisher: Sphere
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0552-987-7
- Published: 2013-08-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## 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.