Dover Two
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A sharp and irreverent British detective novel, Dover Two follows the magnificently slovenly and thoroughly disagreeable Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover as he is dispatched to a posh girls' boarding school to investigate a series of anonymous poison-pen letters that soon escalate into something far more sinister. Joyce Porter masterfully illustrates the comedic tension between the bone-idle Dover and his long-suffering assistant, Sergeant MacGregor, as the two navigate a world of snobbish headmistresses, suspicious staff, and secretive students. The novel's tone is wickedly satirical, skewering both the conventions of the classic English mystery and the pomposity of the institutions it portrays. Porter presents Dover not as a brilliant sleuth but as a magnificently flawed anti-hero whose blundering, self-serving approach to detection somehow stumbles toward the truth. Fans of comic crime fiction in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse and Colin Watson will find Dover Two a thoroughly entertaining and shrewdly observed romp through mid-century English society.
Author: Joyce Porter
Format: Hardback
Published: 1965, Jonathan Cape
Genre: Crime fiction
Edition: First Edition
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Good
Markings: No markings
Condition remarks: Jacket protected by mylar sleeve.
A sharp and irreverent British detective novel, Dover Two follows the magnificently slovenly and thoroughly disagreeable Detective Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover as he is dispatched to a posh girls' boarding school to investigate a series of anonymous poison-pen letters that soon escalate into something far more sinister. Joyce Porter masterfully illustrates the comedic tension between the bone-idle Dover and his long-suffering assistant, Sergeant MacGregor, as the two navigate a world of snobbish headmistresses, suspicious staff, and secretive students. The novel's tone is wickedly satirical, skewering both the conventions of the classic English mystery and the pomposity of the institutions it portrays. Porter presents Dover not as a brilliant sleuth but as a magnificently flawed anti-hero whose blundering, self-serving approach to detection somehow stumbles toward the truth. Fans of comic crime fiction in the tradition of P.G. Wodehouse and Colin Watson will find Dover Two a thoroughly entertaining and shrewdly observed romp through mid-century English society.