Walter Dew: The Man Who Caught Crippen

Walter Dew was a police detective in Whitecastle during the time of Jack the Ripper, and while he was never able to catch 'Jack' he went on to become a successful detective in other crimes. He became the lead detective in the investigation of Dr. Crippen, who poisoned his wife, cut her up into pieces, buried parts of the body in his cellar and then tried to run off to Canada with his mistriss. Dew captured Crippen.

The book is interesting and well written, having only one 'cut and paste' (probably) error that I noticed. Photographs are included.

The reason that I read this book, at this particular time, was that in my previous book, Unnatural Causes by P. D. James several references were made to the Crippen case.