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Joyce Porter


Born
in Marple, Cheshire, The United Kingdom
March 28, 1924

Died
December 09, 1990

Genre
Mystery


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. ...more

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Average rating: 3.78 · 1,525 ratings · 273 reviews · 67 distinct works • Similar authors
Dover One (A Dover Mystery ...
3.65 avg rating — 519 ratings — published 1964 — 25 editions
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Dover Two (A Dover Mystery ...
3.95 avg rating — 238 ratings — published 1989 — 17 editions
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Dover Three (A Dover Myster...
4.09 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1965 — 17 editions
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Dover and the Unkindest Cut...
3.88 avg rating — 100 ratings — published 1967 — 19 editions
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Dover Goes to Pott: A Mystery
3.74 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 1968 — 10 editions
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Dover and the Claret Tapper...
3.85 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1977 — 14 editions
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Dover Strikes Again (A Dove...
4.25 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1991 — 12 editions
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It's Murder with Dover
3.84 avg rating — 51 ratings — published 1973 — 10 editions
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Dead Easy for Dover
3.88 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1978 — 13 editions
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Dover Beats the Band
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Series by Joyce Porter

Dover One Dover Two Dover Three Dover and the Unkindest Cut... Dover Goes to Pott: A Mystery Dover Strikes Again
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Sour Cream With Everything The Chinks in the Curtain Neither a Candle Nor a Pitc... Only with a Bargepole
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“victims.’ ‘And no doubt it will not be the last,’ Boris commented helpfully into his glass of whisky. ‘Do you want”
― Joyce Porter, Dover One
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