Porter, Joyce

Joyce Porter (28 March 1924 – 9 December 1990) was an English crime fiction author. She was born in Marple, Cheshire. In Macclesfield she attended the High School for Girls, then King's College London. served in the Women's Royal Air Force from 1949 to 1963. An intensive course in Russian qualified her for intelligence work for the WRAF. She left the service determined to pursue a full-time career in writing, having written three detective novels already. Joyce Porter lived the last years of her life in a thatched cottage in Longbridge Deverill, a village in Wiltshire. She is interred in the churchyard of St Peter and St Paul. Porter created the characters of Eddie Brown, Constance Ethel Morrison-Burke, and Wilfred Dover.