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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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British writer (1924-1990)

Born 1924
Died 1990

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British writer (1924-1990)

Born 1924
Died 1990
Subjects
England, fiction, Fiction, Dover, wilfred (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, traditional, Police, Wilfred Dover (Fictitious character), Fiction in English, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Science, study and teaching (elementary), English Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, mystery & detective, police procedural, 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
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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
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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