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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Dead set
6 editions - first published in 1992 Borrow -
Whoever has the heart
6 editions - first published in 1993 Borrow -
Dragon's Eye
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Footsteps in the blood
4 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow -
Murder has a pretty face
4 editions - first published in 1981 Borrow -
Witching murder
4 editions - first published in 1990 Borrow -
Murder In The Garden
4 editions - first published in 1987 Borrow -
Axwater
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Baby Drop
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Ironwood
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Listen to the children
3 editions - first published in 1986 -
Dead Again
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The morbid kitchen
3 editions - first published in 1995 Borrow -
A Cure for Dying
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The hand of glass
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Loving murder
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Windsor red
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The Woman Who Was Not There
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Nun's castle
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Raven's forge
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Hunter in the shadows
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A Death in the Family
2 editions - first published in 1995 Borrow -
Burning is a subsitute for loving
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Burning is a substitute for loving
1 edition - first published in 1964 -
Come home and be killed
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Complicity
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Death in the garden
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A different kind of summer
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Nell alone
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A new kind of killer
1 edition - first published in 1971 -
A new kind of killer, an old kind of death
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The painted castle
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Revengeful Death (A&B Crime)
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Stone Dead
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The summer assassin
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Thep ainted castle
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There lies your love
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Whoever Has the Heart (Charmian Daniels Mysteries)
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Windsor Red (A Charmian Daniels Mystery)
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Witching Murder
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Death in the Garden
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Complicity
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A Different Kind of Summer
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Different Kind of Summer
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
A Different Kind of Summer
1 edition - first published in 1992 -
Revengeful Death
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Revengeful Death
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Stone Dead
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Footsteps in the Blood (A Charmian Daniels Mystery)
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Dead Set (Charmian Daniels Mysteries)
1 edition - first published in 1995 Borrow -
Making good blood
1 edition - first published in 1989 Borrow -
Murderers' Houses
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Windsor Red
1 edition - first published in 1990 Borrow -
Tarot's tower
1 edition - first published in 1978 DAISY
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- Jennie Melville
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