Joyce Porter
Birth date: March 28, 1924
Died: December 09, 1990
Joyce Porter's Books
I thank NetGalley and Farrago for providing me an ARC copy of this book that I freely chose to review. Let me clarify that this novel was first published in 1964 by Cape, and Farrago is now republishing all the books in the series. In brief, this book is a blast. I hadn’t heard of the Dover series a...
This detective novel deals with the disappearance of a young lady from an estate in the 1950s. Inspector Dover and his sergeant investigate and solve the crime, discovering all sorts of skullduggery amongst the residents. The characters are a bit stereotypical and the plot moves along slowly but com...
bookshelves: radio-4x, winter-20112012, amusing, fradio, britain-england, mystery-thriller, play-dramatisation, yorkshire, published-1968, tongue-firmly-in-cheek Recommended to ☯Bettie☯ by: Laura Read from January 08 to 11, 2012 From BBC Radio 4 Extra: The Yard's Inspector Dover probes the mur...
From BBC Radio 4 Extra: The Yard's Inspector Dover probes the murder of a businessman's daughter. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0192tvr2.5* - Dover Goes to Pott (1968)2.5* - Dover And The Unkindest Cut Of All (1969)
Scotland Yard detective Wilf Dover is not your usual hero. He distinctly resembles a sloth and is despised by the rest of the department. He is gross, flatulent, lazy, dishonest, sexist, racist, pinches other people's ideas and property, and spends most of his time in bed crouched over a beer he ha...
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