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ISBN: 9780750938037 - Walter Dew
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Walter Dew

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The Man Who Caught Crippen

Nicholas Connell

ISBN: 9780750938037
Format: Hardback
Publisher:The History Press Ltd


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To this day the name of Dr. Crippen is universally recognised as one of the most infamous in the annals of crime. Crippen murdered his wife and dismembered her body, burying the remains in the cellar of his nome and fleeing to Canada with his young mistress. His notoriety is second only to that of Jack the Ripper.

It was the job of one man to catch both Crippen and Jack the Ripper …

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Based on original research and using much hitherto unpublished material, 'Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen' tells the full, extraordinary story of Dew's life, from his humble beginnings as a seed merchant's clerk to chief inspector at Scotland Yard in charge of the most celebrated murder investigation of the 20th century.
 
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