False Inspector Dew
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1920s
A01=Peter Lovesey
Author_Peter Lovesey
award-winning
british crime series
British mystery
British mystery series
Brown Book Group
Category1=Fiction
Category=FF
Category=NL-FF
classic crime
classic crime fiction
classic murder mystery books
COP=United Kingdom
cosy crime
crime awards
crime investigations
crime series
cruise
Dagger
dangerous lies
deception
detective crime series
Diamond Dagger
Discount=15
Dr Crippen
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eq_crime
eq_fiction
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eq_nobargain
established crime writer
Format=BC
Format_Paperback
Gold Dagger
golden age
hidden secrets
HMM=197
humorous crime
IMPN=Sphere
ISBN13=9780751553574
Language_English
long-running series
Mauretania
murder at sea
PA=Temporarily unavailable
PD=20140904
POP=London
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
PUB=Little
puzzling crime cases
ship
SMM=23
Subject=Crime & Mystery
suspense thrillers
traditional crime
twenties murder
unexpected plot twists
WG=234
WMM=128
Product details
- ISBN 9780751553574
- Format: Paperback
- Weight: 234g
- Dimensions: 128 x 197 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 04 Sep 2014
- Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
- Publication City/Country: London, GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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A standalone novel from the critically acclaimed Peter Lovesey. The False Inspector Dew was the winner of the 1982 CWA Gold Dagger.
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.
Peter Lovesey is the only living author in Britain to have received the two highest honours in crime writing - the Diamond Dagger of the Crime Writers Association and Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America. He started with the Sergeant Cribb series set in Victorian London and later progressed to modern times with the award-winning Peter Diamond books set in Bath, his home for almost twenty years.
Now living in Shrewsbury with his wife Jax, whom he met at Reading University, he continues to reach and entertain new readers across the world.
