Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $16.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-09777-6
The latest of the accomplished Commander John Coffin mysteries, after Coffin on Murder Street , revolves around the disappearance of two students from the university of the Second City of London. Although Amy Dean and Martin Blackwell have been...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Severn House Publishers $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-7278-4984-7
Charlotte Chaudin, a beautiful and talented young fashion designer known as Butterfly, flits from one difficult situation to another in this middling romance set in London in the 1960s and '70s. Emerging from a background of hardship and tragedy,...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author St. Martin's Press $20.95 (223p) ISBN 978-0-312-11466-4
Crime in Butler's (Cracking Open a Coffin) fictional Second City of London continues to leave its mark on the unsettled life of high-ranking copper John Coffin, who's newly married to his thespian lover, Stella. Three young woman, all with bitten...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author St. Martin's Press $16.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-08175-1
This unusual--and unusually good--murder mystery with a deftly turned, surprising psychological ending is the first of Butler's 19 Inspector John Coffin series, published in the U.K in 1960, but not previously issued here. Set in Oxford, it presents
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-27997-4
From the capable pen of Gwendoline Butler (A Dark Coffin) comes Coffin's Ghost, starring John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London's Police. When a package marked with Coffin's initials and full of dismembered limbs turns up...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-26167-2
John Coffin, Chief Commander of the Second City of London Police and veteran of more than 20 novels (Coffin's Games; The Coffin Tree, etc.), has to juggle a secret assignment in addition to a serial-murder case in this absorbing police procedural in
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-14577-4
Dualities and duplicities are threaded like filaments throughout Butler's latest in the long-running John Coffin series (The Coffin Tree, etc.). Commander Coffin, head of the Second City of London's police force, is both professionally and...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-13946-9
The notion of a ``Second City'' within London, an uneasy alliance of new money and old poverty set in the Docklands area, has proved a singularly effective one for Butler, whose copper John Coffin (last seen in A Coffin for Charley) has steadily...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur $22.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-29033-7
Scamps and scalawags abound in Billheimer's fourth Owen Allison mystery (after 2001's Dismal Mountain), in which the transportation inspector returns to his native Barkley, W.Va., to help his ailing mother. When an impoundment dam atop the...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $16.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-312-07673-3
In Butler's latest procedural, ominous threats to a child galvanize the police of the fictional Second City of London and their commander, John Coffin, who is being investigated by an overzealous MP. Nell Casey, an American soap opera star who is...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $16.95 (200p) ISBN 978-0-312-05835-7
The brutal murder of a young girl polarizes the inhabitants of the newly gentrified London neighborhood under the jurisdiction of police chief commander John Coffin, seen before in Coffin in the Museum of Crime . Victim Anna Mary Kinver belonged to...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $16.95 (206p) ISBN 978-0-312-04282-0
Butler's latest novel creates a second branch of Scotland Yard to oversee the historic Docklands district of London, here called Thameswater, where, as major docks of yesteryear are gentrified, the working class rubs shoulders with the elite. In an...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $16.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-02886-2
In this absorbing somber work, John Coffin (last seen in Coffin on the Water ) is now a chief superintendent of South London's Tactical Activity Squad, established to investigate serious crimes in the area. In 1978, South London is in transition,...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Minotaur Books $14.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-312-02561-8
British writer Butler has crafted a grim tale that unsuccessfully blends murder with social commentary. In 1946, newly promoted detective-constable John Coffin arrives in Greenwich to take up his post. Soon after, the body of a young woman floats...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author Thomas Dunne Books $16.99 (180p) ISBN 978-0-312-03802-1
Butler ( Coffin on the Water ) here recalls the 1960s, when Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he now buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events. Workmen find the...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author . St. Martin's Minotaur/Dunne $23.95 (217p) ISBN 978-0-312-36133-4
Butler's improbable second Major Mearns historical whodunit (after 2000's The King Cried Murder
) may disappoint fans of the British author's long-running John Coffin series. In the early 1820s, the British royal court is on pins and...
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Gwendoline Butler, Author, Butler, Author Minotaur Books $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-312-20512-6
In the latest entertaining addition in Butler's long-running series of English police procedurals (A Double Coffin, etc.), Chief Comdr. John Coffin confronts a deadly conspiracy intended to destroy everything he holds most dear. Shortly after two...
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