Joan Lock
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Joan Lock

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Joan Lock’s first book, LADY POLICEMAN, described her six years as a policewoman in London’s West End during the 1950s. The next, RELUCTANT NIGHTINGALE*, her previous training as a nurse in the North East. Nine non-fiction, police/crime books followed including three on Scotland Yard’s First Detectives and the first history of the British Women Police a subject on which she became an authority. This led to her writing extensively in the Police Press in support of women police when they were having a bad time during integration and to acting as advisor and participant in the BBC4 TV documentary, A FAIR COP: One Hundred Years of Women Police, screened in March 2015. Joan has also written short stories, radio plays (some historical) and radio documentaries. Her crime fiction includes one modern novel, DEATH IN PERSPECTIVE, and DEAD IMAGE the first of seven Victorian mysteries featuring the charismatic Scotland Yard Detective Ernest Best . *Reissued in paperback as PLEASE, NURSE! in 2013 by Orion.
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