The False Inspector Dew (The Best Mysteries of all Time Series)

ImPress Mystery / Reader's Digest, Pleasantville, NY. 2006. Hardcover. Special printing for The Best Mysteries of all Time Series from Reader's Digest. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light bumping to head and tail. No DJ. Blue leatherette boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine and front board with ship drawing on the front board. Black endpapers. 327 pp 8vo. This book is a 1982 humorous crime novel which won the Gold Dagger award. It is set in 1921 on the ocean liner Mauritania. The plot follows Alma Webster and her lover, dentist Walter Baranov, who murders his wife and flees on the ship, using the name "Inspector Dew," the detective who arrested the real-life Dr. Crippen. A murder occurs on board, and the imposter "Inspector Dew" is asked to investigate, leading to a clever, twist-filled mystery that plays on the famous Crippen case. A clean very presentable copy.