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DOVER TWO by Joyce Porter

DOVER TWO

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ISBN: 0881501352
Publisher: Scribners

Dover One presented the pattern for Dover Two -- a clue puzzle cum satire. The crime is murder and the victim is a stubborn young old maid who has lingered in a coma six months after the first attack. Once again, the clue collecting is more fun than the satire which wears itself thin on the idea of a Detective Chief Inspector of Scotland Yard who is a brainless, boorish bore. Like the idea of having a bohemian F.B.I. man, it's funny-- but not at book length. However, Dover One built an audience...