Dover Two - Hardcover

Porter, Joyce

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 999752814X ISBN 13: 9789997528148

Publisher: Scribner, 1965

Synopsis

In the best and funniest of a series of books about Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover of New Scotland Yard, the irascible detective investigates the murder of "Sleeping Beauty"--a young woman who has been in a coma since a murder attempt months earlier. Clues are few and the case is a tough one, but even an open-and-shut case might prove difficult for Dover, who is distinguished chiefly by corpulence, ill temper, and incompetence. - The Mystery Lover's Companion, Art Bourgeau

About this title

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.

Review

'Plotted with the technique of a virtuoso.' New York Times 'Meet Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover. He's fat, lazy, a scrounger and the worst detective at Scotland Yard. But you will love him.' Manchester Evening News

Edition details

• Publisher: Scribner
• Publication date: 1965
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 999752814X
• ISBN 13: 9789997528148
• Binding: Hardcover