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JOYCE PORTER

1924 - 1990

Writing as: Joyce Porter


According to Fantastic Fiction: "Joyce Porter was born in Marple, Cheshire, and educated at King's College, London. In 1949 she joined the Women's Royal Air Force, and, on the strength of an intensive course in Russian, qualified for confidential work in intelligence.

When she left the service in 1963 she had completed three detective novels. Porter is best known for her series of novels featuring Detective Inspector Wilfred Dover. Dover One appeared in 1964, followed by nine more in a highly successful series. Porter also created the reluctant spy Eddie Brown, and the "Hon-Con", the aristocratic gentlewoman-detective Constance Ethel Morrison Burke."



Series Books
 
Eddie Brown Sour Cream With Everything (1966)
  The Chinks In The Curtain (1967)
  Neither A Candle Nor A Pitchfork (1970)
  Only With A Bargepole (1971)
 
Other Dover One [Wilfred Dover] (1964)
  Dover Two [Wilfred Dover] (1965)
  Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All [Wilfred Dover] (1967)
  Dover Goes to Pott [Wilfred Dover] (1968)
  Dover Three [Wilfred Dover] (1968)
  Dover Strikes Again [Wilfred Dover] (1970)
  Rather a Common Sort of Crime [Constance Burke] (1970)
  A Meddler and Her Murder [Constance Burke] (1972)
  It's Murder with Dover [Wilfred Dover] (1973)
  The Package Included Murder [Constance Burke] (1975)
  Dover and the Claret Tappers [Wilfred Dover] (1977)
  Who the Heck is Sylvia? [Constance Burke] (1977)
  Dead Easy for Dover [Wilfred Dover] (1978)
  The Cart Before the Crime [Constance Burke] (1979)
  Dover Beats the Band [Wilfred Dover] (1980)
  Dover [Wilfred Dover] (1995)