Joyce Porter
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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.
Books
Ellery Queen's Eyes of Mystery
No Easy Answers
She vowed to clear her dead friend's name Laura Gibson was convinced that her childhood friend, Joan Connor, would never have worked for an "escort service." Yet the police insisted that Joan was a call girl and had been murdered by a deranged client. Laura was determined to unearth the truth. She was aided in her efforts by Brandon Powell, a no-nonsense private investigator. Together they concluded that Joan was killed because she knew too much--but about what? As the facts began to surface, so did an unexpected love. Laura hoped she would live to enjoy it; someone else hoped she wouldn't....
Classic Detective Stories From a Suitcase of Suspense
The adventure of the Sussex vampire / by Arthur Conan Doyle The blue geranium / by Agatha Christie The stolen Rubens / by Jacques Futrelle Ask me another / by Frank Gruber The riddle of the yellow canary / by Stuart Palmer Sweating it out with Dover / by Joyce Porter.