- Gwendoline Butler
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Gwendoline Butler (b. 1922, South London) is a writer of mystery fiction credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural" and known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels. She has also published a series featuring female detective Charmian Daniels under the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Butler read history at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford and later lectured there; her husband, the historian Lionel Butler, Fellow of All Souls and Principal of Royal Holloway College, died in 1992.
Selected works
- Death Lives Next Door (1960)
- Make Me a Murderer (1961)
- Coffin in Oxford (1962)
- A Coffin for Baby (1963)
- Coffin Waiting (1964)
- A Coffin in Malta (1964)
- A Nameless Coffin (1966)
- Coffin Following (1968)
- Coffin’s Dark Number (1969)
- A Coffin from the Past (1970)
- A Coffin for the Canary (1974)
- Coffin on the Water (1986)
- Coffin in Fashion (1987)
- Coffin Underground (1988)
- Coffin in the Black Museum (1989)
- Coffin and the Paper Man (1991)
- Coffin on Murder Street (1992)
- Cracking Open a Coffin (1993)
- A Coffin for Charley (1994)
- The Coffin Tree (1994)
- A Dark Coffin (1995)
- A Double Coffin (1996)
- Coffin’s Game (1997)
- A Grave Coffin (1998)
- Coffin’s Ghost (1999)
- A Cold Coffin (2000)
- Coffin Knows the Answer (2002)
References
- Murder Will Out: The Detective in Fiction, T. J. Binyon (Oxford, 1989) ISBN 0-19-219223-X p. 119
- Patricia Craig and Mary Cadogan, The lady investigates, Oxford (1981) ISBN 0-19-281938-0 p. 228
External links
- Gwendoline Butler at Fantastic Fiction
- Bibliography at Classic Crime Fiction
- Interview by John Kennedy Melling at Crime Time
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