Author

Gwendoline Butler

born 19 August 1922 152 known books newest first

Gwendoline Williams was born on 19 August 1922 in Blackheath, South London, England, UK, daughter of Alice (Lee) and Alfred Edward Williams, her younger twin brothers are also authors. Educated at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, where she read History, and later lectured there. On 16th October 1949, she married Dr Lionel Harry Butler (1923-1981), a professor of medieval history at University of St. Andrews and historian, Fellow of All Souls and Principal of Royal Holloway College. The marriage had a daughter, Lucilla Butler.

In 1956, she started to published John Coffin novels under her married name, Gwendoline Butler. In 1962, she decided used her grandmother's name, Jennie Melville as pseudonym to sing her Charmian Daniels novels. She was credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural". 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.

Books

Dread Murder

Coffin Knows The Answer (Wwl Mystery)

Coffin and the Paper Man (Inspector John Coffin)

Coffin in the Museum of Crime (A John Coffin Mystery)

Coffin's Ghost

Heute mir, morgen dir. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Schwarze Fracht. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Coffin knows the answer

Cold Coffin

Ein schönes Paar. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Sein ganzes Glück. Ein Fall für John Coffin

A Coffin for the Canary

Cold Coffin

Complicity

Grave Coffin

Kalte Nacht. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Loving murder

Revengeful Death

Coffin Following (A John Coffin Mystery)

Coffin for Baby (Detective Coffin Mysteries) (Detective Coffin Mysteries)

Coffin'S Game (Commander John Coffin Mysteries

Coffin's ghost

Complicity

Dead Again

Doppelter Boden. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Falsches Spiel. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Revengeful Death (A&B Crime)

Stone Dead

The King Cried Murder!

The King Cried Murder! (A Major Mearns & Sergeant Denny Mystery Set in Windsor Castle)

Unter Druck. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Windsor Red (A Charmian Daniels Mystery)

A grave coffin

A Nameless Coffin (A John Coffin Mystery)

Double Coffin

Dunkle Stunde. Ein Fall für John Coffin

Heißes Geld. Ein Fall für John Coffin

A grave coffin

Coffin's Game

Revengeful Death

Stone Dead

A double Coffin

Butterfly

Let There Be Love

The Coffin Tree

A Dark Coffin (Inspector John Coffin)

Coffin in Malta (Detective Coffin Mysteries)

Coffin in the Black Museum (Detective Coffin Mysteries)

Coffin Waiting (Detective Coffin Mysteries)

The Woman Who Was Not There

A dark coffin

A Death in the Family

The Coffin Tree (Inspector John Coffin)

The morbid kitchen

Baby Drop

Coffin for Baby

The Coffin tree

Whoever Has the Heart (Charmian Daniels Mysteries)

A coffin for Charley

A Coffin from the Past

Coffin for Baby

Coffin In The Museum Of Crime (Worldwide Mystery)

Cracking Open a Coffin (A John Coffin Mystery)

Death lives next door

Different Kind of Summer

Footsteps in the Blood (A Charmian Daniels Mystery)

Whoever has the heart

A Coffin from the Past

A Different Kind of Summer

Coffin on Murder Street

Coffin on Murder Street (Inspector John Coffin)

Cracking open a coffin

Dead set

A Different Kind of Summer

Coffin and the Paper Man

Coffin Waiting

Witching Murder

Coffin and the Paper Man

Coffin in the Museum of Crime