Joyce Porter

For its own very good reasons, Scotland Yard sends Dover off to remote Creedshire to investigate the disappearance of a young housemaid, Juliet Rugg. Though there's every cause to assume that she has been murdered - she gave her favours freely and may even have stooped to a bit of blackmail - no body is to be found. Weighing in at sixteen stone, she couldn't be hard to overlook. But where is she? And why should Dover, of all people, be called upon...

A collection of stories featuring Inspector Wilfred Dover, Scotland Yard's most incompetent detective. Typical is Dover Goes to School, where despite his cockeyed reasoning, he manages to solve a murder.