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Gwendoline Butler (1922–2013)

Autor(a) de Coffin Underground

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About the 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 mostrar mais 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. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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(eng) Gwendoline Butler aka Jennie Melville

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Séries

Obras de Gwendoline Butler

Coffin Underground (1988) 126 cópias
Coffin in the Black Museum (1989) 92 cópias
Coffin and the Paper Man (1990) 86 cópias
Death Lives Next Door (1960) 72 cópias
A Coffin for Charley (1993) 71 cópias
Coffin on Murder Street (1991) 69 cópias
Coffin Knows the Answer (2002) 64 cópias
The Coffin Tree (1994) 63 cópias
A Double Coffin (1996) 61 cópias
Cracking Open a Coffin (1992) 60 cópias
A Grave Coffin (1998) 58 cópias
A Dark Coffin (1995) 55 cópias
Coffin's Game (1997) 52 cópias
Coffin in Fashion (1987) 52 cópias
Coffin on the Water (1986) 48 cópias
Coffin's Ghost (1999) 48 cópias
Dread Murder (2006) 35 cópias
Windsor Red (1988) 33 cópias
A Coffin from the Past (1970) 31 cópias
Murder Has a Pretty Face (1981) 29 cópias
Dead Set (1992) 28 cópias
A Coffin for the Canary (1974) 25 cópias
Making Good Blood (1989) 23 cópias
A Coffin for Pandora (1973) 21 cópias
Witching Murder (1990) 20 cópias
A Cold Coffin (2000) 19 cópias
Coffin in Oxford (1962) 17 cópias
A Nameless Coffin (1966) 17 cópias
Murder In The Garden (1987) 17 cópias
Whoever Has the Heart (1993) 17 cópias
Coffin's Dark Number (1969) 17 cópias
Coffin in Malta (1964) 15 cópias
The Morbid Kitchen (1995) 15 cópias
Footsteps in the Blood (1990) 14 cópias
Dragon's Eye (1976) 14 cópias
Baby Drop (1994) 14 cópias
Axwater (1978) 13 cópias
The Dull Dead (1958) 13 cópias
The Red Staircase (1979) 11 cópias
Sarsen Place (1974) 10 cópias
Hunter in the Shadows (1969) 10 cópias
Receipt for Murder (1956) 9 cópias
Coffin Following (1968) 9 cópias
Raven's Forge (1975) 9 cópias
Meadowsweet (1976) 8 cópias
Stone Dead (1998) 8 cópias
Nun's Castle (1973) 8 cópias
Come Home and Be Killed (1962) 7 cópias
Ironwood (1972) 7 cópias
Revengeful Death (1997) 7 cópias
A Coffin for Baby (1960) 6 cópias
A Different Kind of Summer (1967) 6 cópias
Coffin Waiting (1964) 6 cópias
Dead Again (2000) 5 cópias
Nell Alone (1966) 5 cópias
Murderers' Houses (1964) 4 cópias
The Woman Who Was Not There (1996) 4 cópias
The King Cried Murder! (2000) 4 cópias
The Vesey Inheritance (1975) 4 cópias
Make Me a Murderer (1961) 4 cópias
The Murdering Kind (1958) 4 cópias
Albion Walk (1982) 3 cópias
The Hand of Glass (1983) 3 cópias
The Painted Castle (1982) 3 cópias
Complicity (2000) 3 cópias
Dead in a Row (1957) 3 cópias
The Interloper (1958) 3 cópias
Butterfly (1997) 2 cópias
Cavalcade 1 exemplar(es)
Coffin for Coffin 1 exemplar(es)
There Lies Your Love (1965) 1 exemplar(es)
The Summer Assassin (1971) 1 exemplar(es)
Let There be Love (1997) 1 exemplar(es)
Listen to the Children (1986) 1 exemplar(es)
Loving Murder (2001) 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Verdict of 13 (1978) — Contribuinte — 71 cópias
The Oxford Book of Detective Stories (2000) — Contribuinte — 69 cópias
The Edinburgh Mystery: And Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2022) — Contribuinte — 64 cópias
Royal Crimes (1994) — Contribuinte — 17 cópias
Winter's Crimes 11 (1979) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Winter's Crimes 13 (1981) — Contribuinte — 6 cópias
Winter's Crimes 17 (1985) 5 cópias
Winter's Crimes 4 (1972) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
Winter's Crimes 6 (1974) — Contribuinte; Contribuinte — 3 cópias

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome de batismo
Butler, Gwendoline Williams
Outros nomes
Butler, Gwendoline
Melville, Jennie
Data de nascimento
1922-08-19
Data de falecimento
2013-01-05
Sexo
female
Nacionalidade
UK
Local de nascimento
Deptford, London, England, UK
Locais de residência
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Surrey, England, UK
Educação
Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
Ocupação
academic (Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK)
Relacionamentos
Butler, Lionel (husband)
Premiações
Crime Writers’ Association’s Silver Dagger Award
top two hundred crime writers in the world by The London Times.
Pequena biografia
Gwendoline Williams was born on 19th August 1922 in 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 sign 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.
Aviso de desambiguação
Gwendoline Butler aka Jennie Melville

Membros

Resenhas

two students disappear, tied to earlier murders and crisis in Coffin's career and his affair with Stella
 
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ritaer | 1 outra resenha | Jun 26, 2021 |
a murder and a missing baby in West London
 
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ritaer | Apr 16, 2021 |
death of University girl connects to another death of 20 yrs earlier, Coffin faces career and personal crises.
 
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ritaer | 1 outra resenha | Apr 1, 2021 |
Complex series of deaths in Greenwich neighborhood revolves around fantasy game acted out.
 
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ritaer | 1 outra resenha | Mar 10, 2021 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
78
Also by
10
Membros
1,717
Popularidade
#14,960
Avaliação
½ 3.4
Resenhas
19
ISBNs
393
Idiomas
4
Favorito
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