Sour Cream With Everything

The Story of a Most Unlikely Spy #1

by Joyce Porter

Well, what would you do - if you were a bored sour-grape schoolteacher with an accessible but quite unattractive bird called Nora Schwindlingfisch and the secret service suddenly recruited you? Run like hell! But what if they won't let you . . .

. . . not if you happen to speak fluent Russian and look the spitting image of a British spy in Russia. Before you can so much as yelp you're trained and off on an iron-curtain mission - with a brassy, mountainous blonde called Crystal as your 'wife' . . .

This is the saga of reluctant-spy Brown on his hair-raising secret assignment - besieged by vast hungry women, cradled by danger, scared stiff and browned off with the whole thing . . .

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1966

About the author

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.

Reviews

[A · Rating 4 out of 5]

First of Joyce Porter's Eddie Brown Spy series. Pretty darn great. Harmless, low life teacher is compelled to go to Russia to stand in for a Brit spy for one month. Turns out he is a dead ringer for the other fellow and speaks amazing Russian. He goes. Hijinks occur. Murders. Suspicion. Trysts. Double Crosses. Fast moving, entertaining- super.

[Mimi · Rating 3 out of 5]

Fun, spy jaunt by real former female spy.