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Joyce Porter
(1924 - 1990)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.
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.
Genres: Mystery
Series
Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover
Dover One (1964)
Dover Two (1965)
Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All (1967)
Dover Goes to Pott (1968)
Dover Three (1968)
Dover Strikes Again (1970)
It's Murder with Dover (1973)
Dover and the Claret Tappers (1977)
Dead Easy for Dover (1978)
Dover Beats the Band (1980)
Dover (1995)
Dover One (1964)
Dover Two (1965)
Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All (1967)
Dover Goes to Pott (1968)
Dover Three (1968)
Dover Strikes Again (1970)
It's Murder with Dover (1973)
Dover and the Claret Tappers (1977)
Dead Easy for Dover (1978)
Dover Beats the Band (1980)
Dover (1995)
Eddie Brown, the World's Most Reluctant Spy
1. Sour Cream with Everything (1966)
2. The Chinks in the Curtain (1967)
3. Neither a Candle Nor a Pitchfork (1969)
4. Only with a Bargepole (1971)
1. Sour Cream with Everything (1966)
2. The Chinks in the Curtain (1967)
3. Neither a Candle Nor a Pitchfork (1969)
4. Only with a Bargepole (1971)
Constance Ethel Morrison Burke
1. Rather a Common Sort of Crime (1970)
aka Constance Ethel Morrison Burke
2. A Meddler and Her Murder (1972)
3. The Package Included Murder (1975)
4. Who the Heck is Sylvia? (1977)
5. The Cart Before the Crime (1979)
1. Rather a Common Sort of Crime (1970)
aka Constance Ethel Morrison Burke
2. A Meddler and Her Murder (1972)
3. The Package Included Murder (1975)
4. Who the Heck is Sylvia? (1977)
5. The Cart Before the Crime (1979)
Anthologies containing stories by Joyce Porter
Murder Under the Mistletoe (1992)
And Other Stories from Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
edited by
Cynthia Manson
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