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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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    First published in 2001 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: A Meddler and her Murder

    First published in 1973 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover One

    First published in 1964 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Classic detective stories from a suitcase of suspense

    First published in 1999 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Dover Beats the Band/a Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novel: A Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novel

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Dover One (Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover Novels)

    First published in 1989 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: It's Murder with Dover (Chief Inspector Dover Mysteries)

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    First published in 1987 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: By Joyce Porter - Dover and the Unkindest Cut of All (1979-04-03) [Hardcover]

    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Neither a Candle nor a Pitchfork

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  • Cover of: Dover and the Claret Tappers

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Born 1924
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Subjects

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
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import