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 under the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Butler read history at Oxford and later lectured there; her husband, the historian Lionel Butler, died in 1992.

[edit] 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 Coffing (2000)

• Coffin Knows the Answer (2002)

[edit] External links

• Gwendoline Butler at Fantastic Fiction
• Bibliography at Classic Crime Fiction
• Interview by John Kennedy Melling at Crime Time