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Gwendoline Butler (1922–2013)

Autor de Coffin Underground

78+ Obras 1,718 Miembros 19 Reseñas 4 Preferidas

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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 más 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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Series

Obras de Gwendoline Butler

Coffin Underground (1988) 126 copias
Coffin in the Black Museum (1989) 92 copias
Coffin and the Paper Man (1990) 86 copias
Death Lives Next Door (1960) 72 copias
A Coffin for Charley (1993) 71 copias
Coffin on Murder Street (1991) 69 copias
Coffin Knows the Answer (2002) 65 copias
The Coffin Tree (1994) 63 copias
A Double Coffin (1996) 61 copias
Cracking Open a Coffin (1992) 60 copias
A Grave Coffin (1998) 58 copias
A Dark Coffin (1995) 55 copias
Coffin's Game (1997) 52 copias
Coffin in Fashion (1987) 52 copias
Coffin on the Water (1986) 48 copias
Coffin's Ghost (1999) 48 copias
Dread Murder (2006) 35 copias
Windsor Red (1988) 33 copias
A Coffin from the Past (1970) 31 copias
Murder Has a Pretty Face (1981) 29 copias
Dead Set (1992) 28 copias
A Coffin for the Canary (1974) 25 copias
Making Good Blood (1989) 23 copias
A Coffin for Pandora (1973) 21 copias
Witching Murder (1990) 20 copias
A Cold Coffin (2000) 19 copias
Coffin in Oxford (1962) 17 copias
A Nameless Coffin (1966) 17 copias
Murder In The Garden (1987) 17 copias
Coffin's Dark Number (1969) 17 copias
Whoever Has the Heart (1993) 16 copias
Coffin in Malta (1964) 15 copias
The Morbid Kitchen (1995) 15 copias
Footsteps in the Blood (1990) 14 copias
Dragon's Eye (1976) 14 copias
Baby Drop (1994) 14 copias
Axwater (1978) 13 copias
The Dull Dead (1958) 13 copias
The Red Staircase (1979) 11 copias
Sarsen Place (1974) 10 copias
Hunter in the Shadows (1969) 10 copias
Receipt for Murder (1956) 9 copias
Coffin Following (1968) 9 copias
Raven's Forge (1975) 9 copias
Meadowsweet (1976) 8 copias
Ironwood (1972) 8 copias
Stone Dead (1998) 8 copias
Nun's Castle (1973) 8 copias
Ven a casa y moriras (1962) 7 copias
Revengeful Death (1997) 7 copias
A Coffin for Baby (1960) 6 copias
Coffin Waiting (1964) 6 copias
Dead Again (2000) 5 copias
Nell Alone (1966) 5 copias
Murderers' Houses (1964) 4 copias
The King Cried Murder! (2000) 4 copias
The Vesey Inheritance (1975) 4 copias
Make Me a Murderer (1961) 4 copias
The Murdering Kind (1958) 4 copias
Albion Walk (1982) 3 copias
The Hand of Glass (1983) 3 copias
The Painted Castle (1982) 3 copias
Complicity (2000) 3 copias
Dead in a Row (1957) 3 copias
The Interloper (1958) 3 copias
Butterfly (1997) 2 copias
Cavalcade (1984) 1 copia
There Lies Your Love (1965) 1 copia
The Summer Assassin (1971) 1 copia
Let There be Love (1997) 1 copia
Listen to the Children (1986) 1 copia
Loving Murder (2001) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

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

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre legal
Butler, Gwendoline Williams
Otros nombres
Butler, Gwendoline
Melville, Jennie
Fecha de nacimiento
1922-08-19
Fecha de fallecimiento
2013-01-05
Género
female
Nacionalidad
UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Deptford, London, England, UK
Lugares de residencia
London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Surrey, England, UK
Educación
Oxford University (Lady Margaret Hall)
Ocupaciones
academic (Oxford University, Oxford, England, UK)
Relaciones
Butler, Lionel (husband)
Premios y honores
Crime Writers’ Association’s Silver Dagger Award
top two hundred crime writers in the world by The London Times.
Biografía breve
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 desambiguación
Gwendoline Butler aka Jennie Melville

Miembros

Reseñas

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

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Obras
78
También por
10
Miembros
1,718
Popularidad
#14,952
Valoración
½ 3.4
Reseñas
19
ISBNs
394
Idiomas
4
Favorito
4

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