{"product_id":"the-false-inspector-dew-isbn-9781569472552","title":"The False Inspector Dew","description":"“Absolutely riveting . . . A masterpiece. I defy anyone to foresee the outcome.”\u003cb\u003e—Ruth Rendell\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe year is 1921. A passionate affair between voracious romance reader Alma Webster and her dentist, Walter Baranov, has led to his wife’s murder. The lovers take flight aboard the \u003ci\u003eMauretania\u003c\/i\u003e and the dentist takes the name of Inspector Dew, the detective who arrested the notorious wifekiller Dr. Crippen. 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