Dover Strikes Again
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
When the laziest, most disagreeable detective in all of England is dragged back into service, the results are as disastrous — and hilarious — as ever. Dover Strikes Again reunites readers with Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, Joyce Porter's magnificently slovenly creation, as he blunders his way through yet another baffling criminal investigation, leaving a trail of incompetence, bad temper, and accidental breakthroughs in his wake. Set against the backdrop of English village life, the novel pits Dover's spectacular ineptitude against a mystery that refuses to solve itself, much to the exasperation of his long-suffering assistant, Sergeant MacGregor. Porter's genius lies in her razor-sharp comic timing and her gleeful subversion of the classic British detective novel — where the hero is neither heroic nor particularly clever, yet somehow justice is served. Her prose is wickedly funny, skewering the conventions of the genre with a satirical precision that draws comparisons to the golden age of crime writing while gleefully dismantling its tropes. For fans of British humour and crime fiction alike, this novel poses one irresistible question: can a man this monumentally useless possibly catch a killer?
Author: Joyce Porter
Format: Hardback
Genre: Crime fiction
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
When the laziest, most disagreeable detective in all of England is dragged back into service, the results are as disastrous — and hilarious — as ever. Dover Strikes Again reunites readers with Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, Joyce Porter's magnificently slovenly creation, as he blunders his way through yet another baffling criminal investigation, leaving a trail of incompetence, bad temper, and accidental breakthroughs in his wake. Set against the backdrop of English village life, the novel pits Dover's spectacular ineptitude against a mystery that refuses to solve itself, much to the exasperation of his long-suffering assistant, Sergeant MacGregor. Porter's genius lies in her razor-sharp comic timing and her gleeful subversion of the classic British detective novel — where the hero is neither heroic nor particularly clever, yet somehow justice is served. Her prose is wickedly funny, skewering the conventions of the genre with a satirical precision that draws comparisons to the golden age of crime writing while gleefully dismantling its tropes. For fans of British humour and crime fiction alike, this novel poses one irresistible question: can a man this monumentally useless possibly catch a killer?