Romance History: Gwendoline Butler

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Gwendoline Butler is one of the most universally praised of English mystery authors, under both her own name and that of Jennie Melville, and has written over fifty novels under both names. Educated at Haberdashers she read and lectured history at Oxford, later marrying Dr Lionel Butler, Principal of Royal Holloway College, who died in 1992. She now spends her time travelling, looking at pictures, and - of course - writing. She has one daughter.

She is credited for inventing the "woman's police procedural" and known for her series of Inspector John Coffin novels. Gwendoline Butler is a Londoner, and was born in 1922 in a part of South London for which she still has a tremendous affection, and which, under the guise of the Second City of London, is the setting for her Coffin novels, its policing being in the capable hands of Commander John Coffin whose cases now span more than fifteen titles.

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