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.
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Death lives next door
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Coffin in Malta
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The Coffin tree
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Coffin's Game
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Coffin in the Black Museum
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Coffin in fashion
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Coffin underground
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Coffin knows the answer
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A coffin for Charley
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A double Coffin
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Coffin's Dark Number
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Coffin's ghost
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Coffin following
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The red staircase
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A nameless coffin
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A coffin for the canary
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Butterfly
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The brides of Friedberg
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Coffin in Oxford
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Let There Be Love
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The King Cried Murder! (A Major Mearns & Sergeant Denny Mystery Set in Windsor Castle)
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The Vesey inheritance
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Coffin for baby
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The murdering kind
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Cold Coffin
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Coffin and the Paper Man
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The dull dead
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A dark coffin
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A coffin from the past
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Albion walk
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Coffin Following (A John Coffin Mystery)
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Coffin waiting
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Ein schönes Paar. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Coffin on Murder Street (Inspector John Coffin)
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Dull Dead (Walker British Mystery)
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Coffin and the Paper Man
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Coffin and the Paper Man (Inspector John Coffin)
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Coffin in the Black Museum (Detective Coffin Mysteries)
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Falsches Spiel. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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The Coffin Tree (Isis)
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Cavalcade
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Coffin Underground (Inspector John Coffin)
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Heute mir, morgen dir. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Heißes Geld. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Coffin Waiting (Detective Coffin Mysteries)
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A Dark Coffin (Inspector John Coffin)
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Dine and be dead
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Meadowsweet
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The King Cried Murder!
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Sein ganzes Glück. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Doppelter Boden. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Unter Druck. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Coffin for Baby (Detective Coffin Mysteries) (Detective Coffin Mysteries)
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A grave coffin
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Receipt for murder
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Kalte Nacht. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Dread Murder
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Schwarze Fracht. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Death lives next door
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A Coffin from the Past
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A Coffin for the Canary
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Coffin for Baby
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Coffin for Baby
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A Coffin from the Past
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Cold Coffin
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A Coffin from the Past
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Olivia
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Coffin on the Water
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The Coffin Tree (Inspector John Coffin)
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The interloper
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Coffin in the Museum of Crime (A John Coffin Mystery)
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Coffin Waiting
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A Nameless Coffin (A John Coffin Mystery)
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A double coffin. Spoken word. CAB1425. 8 audio cassettes
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Sarsen Place
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Dunkle Stunde. Ein Fall für John Coffin
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Coffin in the Museum of Crime
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Dead in a Row
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Coffin on Murder Street
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A dark coffin
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A grave Coffin
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Coffin's Ghost
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Coffin Knows The Answer (Wwl Mystery)
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Double Coffin
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Coffin In The Museum Of Crime (Worldwide Mystery)
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Coffin'S Game (Commander John Coffin Mysteries
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Coffin in Malta (Detective Coffin Mysteries)
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Coffin in the Museum of Crime
1 edition - first published in 1993 Borrow
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