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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.
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.
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