The False Inspector Dew
- ISBN-10
- 1569472556
- ISBN-13
- 9781569472552
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 251
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Soho Press
- Author
- Peter Lovesey
Description
Alma Webster's passionate love affair with dentist Walter Baranov leads to the murder of his wife, the couple's journey to the United States, and a shipboard murder that Walter, having hidden his identity under the alias Inspector Dew, is asked to investigate. Reprint.
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