Joyce Porter

	Dover One - Joyce Porter 1964 UK hardback first edition, first impression published by Jonathan Cape in London A near fine book in near fine unclipped dust jacket Book is tight and clean, square spine and clean pages No previous owner name or stamps etc The dustwrapper has no loss or tears, clean and bright Dover One is the first of the cases more or less solved by Chief Inspector Dover and chronicled by Miss Porter. Others as unusually diverting will follow. The first book A superb of an already scarce book but in this condition . . . For Sale at £59 (approx $94) *23 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Dover Three - Joyce Porter 1965 British hardcover first edition, first impression published by Jonathan Cape in London The book is in near fine as is the unclipped dust jacket Tight binding with no spine lean, clean text block No owner marks or stamps etc The dustwrapper has no chips tears, clean and bright Readers of Dover Three will also fathom another small mystery: why Dover, who normally claims any credit that's going, whether or not it is due to him, in this instance declines to take what ought, if there were any justice in the world, to be coming to him. The author's third book A very nice copy, ths title being even rarer than the first in our experience For Sale at £59 (approx $94) *23 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Sour Cream with Everything - Joyce Porter 1966 English hardback 1st edition, 1st impression published by Jonathan Cape in London A near fine book in near fine unclipped dust jacket Book is tight and clean, square spine and clean pages No previous owner name or stamps etc The dustwrapper has no loss or tears, clean and bright He is accompanied by a 'wife', Crystal, a brassy, ageing and mountainous blonde who shrieks and undulates her way across Russia, only pausing now and then to keep Brown in order with her hairbrush. And she is not the only strong-minded woman in whose toils hefinds himself. Brown's desperate adventures in a Russian sanatorium and his masterly planning of a spontaneous student demonstration outside the British Embassy in Moscow will enthral innumerable readers who know that Miss Porter can be relied on absolutely for hilarious inventiveness. The writer's fourth book A particularly nice copy hard to realistically imagine one much nicer For Sale at £48 (approx $76) *23 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	The Chinks in the Curtain - Joyce Porter 1967 British hardcover first edition, first impression published by Jonathan Cape in London The book is in near fine as is the unclipped dust jacket Tight binding with no spine lean, clean text block No owner marks or stamps etc The dustwrapper is free from any real damage, clean and bright Brown's quarry is Prince Lavrov, an eccentric Russian emigre" whose fetish is military uniforms and who lives in a mock sixteenth-century chateau. By surrendering himself to the salacious, if skeletal, embraces of the Prince's niece, Aspasia Maude, Brown manages to infiltrate the household and form an uneasy alliance with a disguised Russian spy. Together they uncover a plot to restore the old regime to Russia, hatched by the Prince and a Rasputin-like priest whose creed is 'Give God something to forgive you for.* But the sinister implications of the plot elude the two agents until the eleventh hour. Joyce Porter irreverently juggles the familiar paraphernalia of midnight tip-toeing, hidden microphones and conniving seduction into a hilarious travesty of the spy story which will delight the increasing number of her followers. The author's 6th book A great copy, the white wrapper being unusually clean For Sale at £27 (approx $43) *23 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart
	Dover Goes to Pott - Joyce Porter 1968 English hardback 1st edition, 1st impression published by Jonathan Cape in London A near fine book in VG++ unclipped dust jacket Book is tight and clean, square spine and clean pages No previous owner name or stamps etc The dustwrapper has no loss or tears, just small light rubs to extremities, clean and bright Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, together with his reluctant assistant Sergeant MacGregor. Their investigations uncover a family feud deep in the suburban jungle where jealousy and petty intrigue bristle behind every well-trimmed hedge. Cynthia was cut off from her father's affection and wealth after a mesalliance with the manager of a minor travel agency, and when she is found battered to death with a poker in the front room of her semi-detached, Wibbley is convinced her husband is guilty. With a fat bribe dangling before him, Dover pursues the chief suspect with unprecedented vigour, while MacGregor sniffs after red herrings. But the surprising solution, when it shows itself, means blighted hopes for both detectives. Readers locked in a long-standing love-hate relationship with the shabby, surly 'tec in a bowler hat will welcome this wickedly comic new episode in the annals of Dover and his dashing stooge. The writer's seventh book A fresh copy and a scarce book in a very collectable series For Sale at £48 (approx $76) *23 - free delivery worldwide !	Buy Secure - Enquire or Add to Cart

Reviews of Joyce Porter's Books DOVER ONE  'Miss Porter shows splendid fertility in comic invention. The comic-horrific ending must be the best crime fiction joke of the year.' JULIAN SYMONS, Sunday Times 'Do not at all costs miss something really new in detective fiction.' E. D. O'BRIEN, Illustrated London News DOVER TWO  'Joyce Porter is a joy: and if you don't laugh out loud at least three times in the first 24 pages. . . . Dover is unquestionably the most entertaining detective in fiction.' FRANCES ILES, Guardian * A marvellously comic creation . . . she has struck a rich new vein in 'tec fiction.' PETER PHILLIPS, The Sun Joyce Porter THE CHINKS IN THE CURTAIN  'The ultimate in spoof spy stories... very funny.' FRANCIS GOFF, Sunday Telegraph ' A fashionable story this, with industrial espionage its core. The props are charming and there are corpses and orgies galore.' The Times Literary Supplement Introduction to the Author's First Book IT was spring. The windows of the chain-stores bloomed with plastic daffodils and the first buds were beginning to burgeon through layers of London soot. The Assistant Commissioner (G) took a deep breath and smiled happily as he detected a vernal whiff in the mingled petrol and diesel fumes. With reckless abandon he celebrated the rebirth of the year by purchasing a one-and-sixpenny pink carnation for his buttonhole. The bloom had been forced in a continental hothouse and glistened not with dew but with a mouthful of tap water which had just been spat upon it by the flowerseller, but for the Assistant Commissioner it symbolized being in England now that April was there. He strode jauntily along to his office in New Scotland Yard, casting roguish glances at the legs of such young ladies as he happened to meet.

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