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Coffin's Game

Coffin's Game( )
Author: Butler, Gwendoline
Series title:John Coffin Mysteries Ser.
ISBN:978-0-312-20512-6
Publication Date:Jul 1999
Publisher:St. Martin's Press
Imprint:Minotaur Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $21.95
Book Description:

Gwendoline Butler writes under her own name and the pseudonym Jennie Melville.  Educated at Haberdashers, she read history at Oxford, and later married Dr. Lionel Butler, Principal of Royal Holloway College. She has one daughter. She is a winner of the Crime Writers' Association's Silver Dagger Award. She was also selected as being one of the top two hundred crime writers in the world by The London Times. She lives in Surrey, England.

Book Details
Pages:240
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural
Fiction / City Life
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.46 x 8.56 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:0.836 Pounds
Author Biography
Butler, Gwendoline (Author)


Gwendoline Butler, née Williams was born on August 19, 1922 in South London, England. She was a British writer of mystery fiction and romance novels since 1956. She also used the pseudonym Jennie Melville. Credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural", is well known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels as Gwendoline Butler, and by female detective Charmian Daniels as Jennie Melville. She was educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read History, and later lectured there. In 1956, she started to publish John Coffin novels under her married name, Gwendoline Butler. In 1962, she decided to use her grandmother's name, Jennie Melville as pseudonym to sign her Charmian Daniels novels. In addition to her mystery series, she also wrote romantic novels. In 1981, her novel The Red Staircase won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association.

Her titles include Receipt for Murder, Coffin Following, Coffin's Ghost, Coffin Knows the Answer and Loving Murder.

She died on January 5, 2013.

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