Gwendoline Butler

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Gwendoline Butler ( Gwendoline Williams ; born August 19, 1922 in London , † January 5, 2013 in Birmingham ) was a British author of crime novels . The 30-volume series Ein Fall für John Coffin is particularly well known ; Of these, between 1999 and 2004, 11 titles were published by Diogenes Verlag in German translation. Under the pseudonym "Jennie Melville" she wrote 19 thrillers around the character of Charmain Daniels . In 1973 she received the Silver Dagger for A Coffin for Pandora .

Works (in German)

  • Season for a good uncle . Detective novel ( Coffin's Dark Number , 1969). Heyne, Munich 1971
  • The house on fire . Roman ( The Brides of Friedberg , 1977). Heyne, Munich 1980
  • Hot money . Novel ( The Coffin Tree , 1994). Diogenes, Zurich 1999
  • Dark hour . Novel ( A Dark Coffin , 1995). Diogenes, Zurich 1999
  • Under pressure . Roman ( Coffin in the Black Museum , 1989). Diogenes, Zurich 2000
  • Double bottom . Roman ( A Double Coffin , 1996). Diogenes, Zurich 2000
  • Wrong game . Novel ( Coffin's Game , 1997). Diogenes, Zurich 2000
  • Cold night . Roman ( A Coffin for Charley , 1994). Diogenes, Zurich 2001
  • All his luck . Roman ( Coffin and the Paper Man , 1991). Diogenes, Zurich 2002
  • A lovely couple . Roman ( Cracking Open a Coffin , 1993). Diogenes, Zurich 2002
  • Black cargo . Novel ( A Grave Coffin , 1998). Diogenes, Zurich 2003
  • Today me, tomorrow you . Novel ( Coffin's Ghost , 1999). Diogenes, Zurich 2003
  • Murder Street . Roman ( Coffin on Murder Street , 1992). Diogenes, Zurich 2004

As Jennie Melville :

  • Tomorrow's murderers . Novel ( A New Kind of Killer , 1970). Rowohlt (rororo 2285), Reinbek 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. http://www.fictiondb.com/author/gwendoline-butler~1018.htm
  2. ^ Gwendoline Butler Obituary . In: The Times . Retrieved January 31, 2013