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Joyce Porter

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.

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Born 1924
Died 1990

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  • Cover of: Ellery Queen's Eyes of mystery

    Cover of edition elleryqueenseyes0000elle_f3h8 Cover of edition elleryqueenseyes0000elle First published in 1981 — 6 editions
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  • Cover of: It's murder with Dover

    First published in 1973 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover Three

    Cover of edition doverthree00port First published in 1965 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The chinks in the curtain

    First published in 1967 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover Goes to Pott

    First published in 1968 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover strikes again.

    First published in 1970 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All

    First published in 1967 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover beats the band: a Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover novel

    First published in 1980 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dead easy for Dover: a novel

    First published in 1978 — 4 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover one.

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  • Cover of: The cart before the crime: a novel

    First published in 1979 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover: the collected short stories

    First published in 1995 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Only with a bargepole: a novel.

    First published in 1971 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Sour cream with everything

    First published in 1966 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover and the Claret Tappers: A Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novel (A Chief Inspector Dover Mystery)

    First published in 1976 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A meddler and her murder.

    First published in 1972 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Neither a candle nor a pitchfork: a novel.

    First published in 1969 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The package included murder: a novel of suspense featuring the Honourable Constance Morrison-Burke

    First published in 1975 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Rather a common sort of crime: a novel.

    First published in 1970 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover Two

    First published in 1965 — 3 editions
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Born 1924
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England, fiction, Dover, wilfred (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Police, Wilfred Dover (Fictitious character), Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, Science, study and teaching (elementary), English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Great britain, fiction, American Detective and mystery stories, Women judges, fiction, Crime Hmour Whodunnit. English. Police procedural. 1960s, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, English, Fiction, short stories (single author), Guerrilla warfare, History, Humanities, Investigation, Murder, Mystery fiction

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Great Britain, England

People

Dover. Six foot two, Seventeen and a quarter stone, and a moustache in a style made well-known, by the late Herr Hitler., if not popularised

Time

1960s England

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February 12, 2023 Edited by madelinemarshall13 bio and picture added
February 12, 2023 Edited by madelinemarshall13 Added new photo
January 5, 2023 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
January 5, 2023 Edited by SmCvgPed Add wikidata, DoB
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