Coffin Knows the Answer

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2003-04-10

Total Pages: 197

ISBN-13: 1466811986

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A gripping exploration of hidden desires and terrors, Coffin Knows the Answer poses some disturbing questions about identity and relationships in the modern world. With his wife, the acclaimed actress Stella Pinero, away on a movie shoot in Scotland, Chief Commander John Coffin is at a bit of a loose end with just the cat and dog for company. But one morning, as he checks through the mail for his wife, he gets a rather unpleasant surprise: horrific pictures of badly abused children sent anonymously to Stella. Rather than worry his wife, he vows to track down the culprit and calls in a trusted colleague, DCI Phoebe Astley, to assist him in his inquiries. As they investigate Stella's stalker, another serious problem faces the detectives of the Second City of London. Several young girls have been murdered in Spinnergate with distinct and brutal similarities between the cases. Is there a serial killer on the loose? What is the connection to Stella Pinero, or is it all coincidence? As the investigations get closer to each other in focus, Coffin starts to feel that there are very personal motives at play as his wife's tormentor racks up the tension. When excavations near St Luke's unearth a chilling secret buried in the grounds of Stella's theater, John feels the net closing around those nearest to him and must act quickly or risk losing all that he holds dear.

Coffin Knows the Answer

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2003-04-10

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 0312290330

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When his wife receives an anonymous cache of disturbing photographs, chief commander John Coffin enlists the help of a colleague to track down a stalker and wonders if the case if linked to a string of London murders.

Coffin Underground

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 1992-10-25

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373261109

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Coffin Underground by Gwendoline Butler released on Oct 25, 1992 is available now for purchase.

A Grave Coffin

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373263929

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A note found next to a murdered police officer read, Ask Coffin. But what is John Coffin, Commander of London's Second City Police, supposed to know? The victim was investigating counterfeit pharmaceuticals and internal police corruption. As Coffin probes into his colleague's investigation, he makes a connection to the disappearance of four schoolboys.

The Coffin Tree

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780373262502

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That summer when the old Docklands of London sweltered in the great heat... was the summer when John Coffin walked his Second City of London and felt that life was unraveling about him... Something had to be done and it was for him to do it. Two of Coffin's young detectives had died - deaths that were said to be accidental. In Coffin's view, however, two accidents are two too many. Commander John Coffin is not a fanciful man, but somehow the half-dead tree, its top killed by lightning, standing in a sad patch of rough earth, seems to him to epitomize his problems. Why did the two policemen die? How did one dead police officer's wife come to die a grisly death herself at the foot of the coffin tree? Coffin can't believe that it was suicide. Beyond these concerns, Coffin is uneasy about his relationship with the mercurial actress, Stella Pinero, whom he married after a long on-and-off romance. It is when Stella, whose art has taught her to look deep into the human psyche, sets things right between them that Coffin is able to seek the answers he knows are there.

A Coffin for Charley

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373262007

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A Coffin For Charlie by Gwendoline Butler released on Mar 25, 1996 is available now for purchase.

Coffin in the Museum of Crime

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373261215

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Coffin In The Museum of Crime by Gwendoline Butler released on Apr 24, 1993 is available now for purchase.

Coffin's Ghost

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Thorndike Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780786228034

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John Coffin, Commander of the Second City of London's Police, is personally involved when a gruesome parcel containing dimembered body parts is discovered outside a women's shelter.

Coffin and the Paper Man

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Worldwide Library

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780373261338

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Following the brutal stabbing of a young girl, John Coffin, chief commander of the Docklands district, receives a series of notes from "the Paper Man" promising more bodies if the young girl's killer isn't caught. As the case goes unsolved, more bodies turn up, and now Coffin must find two killers. Martin's.

Dread Murder

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Author: Gwendoline Butler

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2007-04-17

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 0312361335

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In the court of King George IV, Major Mearns---an old dog of war and veteran of Willington's army---is the guardian of Windsor Castle. Some would call him a spy; he calls himself a "watcher." Working with his close friend, the resourceful Sergeant Denny, the pair maintain a cool facade behind which they go about their duties quietly and unnoticed. Unnoticed, that is, until the day Mearns receives a parcel containing a gruesome surprise: a pair of severed human legs. The legs belong to a fellow soldier. Casting aside official protocol, Mearns and Denny decide to investigate the murder themselves, also enrolling the help of a precocious young runaway, Charlie. But soon these maverick investigators find themselves up against all manner of obstacles and danger, not the least of which is the Crown Keepers of the Peace---a unit of former soldiers headed by Mearns's nemesis, Felix Ferguson. With more butchered body parts turning up in parcels and the number of deaths rising, our amateur investigators find themselves up to their necks in corruption and intrigue. Mearns struggles to keep Ferguson at bay, not only during the investigation, but also for the affections of the desirable Mindy, a maidservant in the castle. With the pressure on, can Mearns get to the bottom of the murders and win the heart of his ladylove? With Dread Murder, Gwendoline Butler delivers a cleverly cunning and old-fashioned mystery that hides a gruesome murder behind its charming facade.