Joan Margaret Fleming (27 March 1908 – 15 November 1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels.
Her novel The Deeds of Dr Deadcert was made into the film Rx Murder (1958), and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for When I Grow Rich (1962) and Young Man I Think You're Dying (1970).
She attended the Brighthelmstone School for Girls, but left without qualifications and moved to London at the age of 18 when her father was promoted as a marine engineer, although he died a year later.
She married Norman Bell Beattie Fleming, a Harley Street ophthalmic surgeon, in 1932, and had four children.
[2] Perhaps her best-loved character, the Turkish philosopher detective Nuri Bey Izkirlak, features in two of her books, When I Grow Rich (1962) and Nothing is the Number When You Die (1965).