The False Inspector Dew Peter Lovesey

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The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey

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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.

The False Inspector Dew Summary

The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey

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.

The False Inspector Dew Reviews

An extraordinarily clever, fascinating novel ... Compulsively readable * Colin Dexter *
Absolutely riveting ... I read The False Inspector Dew because I couldn't resist it and now I wish I'd saved it for the weekend. He's such a stylish, lucid writer, and wickedly clever as well, with a wonderful knack of springing really astonishing surprises ... A masterpiece. I defy anyone to foresee the outcome * Ruth Rendell *
The sort of book that ought to be a bestseller and deserves to be * HRF Keating, The Times *
Oh, what a lovely crime this is * Washington Post *
Brilliant ... stunning * Evening Standard *
Impossible to put down ... We dare you not to smile and smile again as wicked entertainer Lovesey sails through each roll and turn of the transatlantic crossing * Kirkus Reviews *
Lovesey's masterpiece thus far and one of the best mysteries ever written, one that opens up new possibilities for the genre * Dictionary of Literary Biography *

About Peter Lovesey

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.

Additional information

Sku

GOR006255330

ISBN 13

9780751553574

ISBN 10

0751553573

Title

The False Inspector Dew by Peter Lovesey

Author

Peter Lovesey

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Little, Brown Book Group

Year published

20140904

Number of pages

352

Prizes

N/A

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Note

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