Dave Porter and His Double is the twelfth of Dave Porter series of books by Edward Stratemeyer. Dave has had a succession of brilliant, thrilling and improbable escapes in previous books and his life in the present volume is by no means dull. As usual, Dave and his friends stand for the best things and when thiefs steal miniature paintings worth tens of thousands of dollars, Dave and his friends set out to right the wrong.
Edward Stratemeyer wrote more than 1,300 books himself, selling over 500 million copies. In addition to 10 Dave Porter books, Stratemeyer wrote seven series with mostly a military nature. He also created Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys, The Rover Boys, The Dana Boys, Bomba the Jungle Boy, and Tom Swift. He wrote under seven pen names and employed a number of ghost writers for whom he wrote plot outlines. The "Stratemeyer Syndicate" was a large organization and controlled a number of publishers.