Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is a difficult man to get
along with. He’s fat, he’s lazy, he’s rude, he’s inconsiderate – in fact, in
just about every measurable way, Dover is a repulsive human being. So woe to
the criminal forced to deal with Dover, because it will be an extremely
unpleasant experience. That’s what someone in Creedshire is about to learn.
It all started with the disappearance of Juliet Rugg, a young
girl who weighs sixteen stone. The grotesquely large girl was even more
repulsive than Dover by all accounts, and so nobody really seems to care about
her disappearance. But it’s Dover’s job to care, even though he thinks it’s a
gigantic waste of his time. But as the investigation proceeds, the question
becomes more puzzling: just what did
happen to Juliet? The unique circumstances, described in detail in Joyce Porter’s
Dover One, make an accidental death,
a suicide, an elopement, and a kidnapping seem utterly impossible. The only
option remaining is murder… but where could you stuff such a large girl?
