Gwendoline Butler

With the papers near the mutilated body of Harry Seton is a note: "Ask Coffin."....

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....

London's Second City is shaken by a terrorist's bomb and a woman's body is found in a damaged building....

John Coffin takes on the case of a man who claims his father was a serial killer and that as a boy he helped his father bury a victim....

Marriage is proving anything but dull for Commander John Coffin, keeper of the peace in London's Second City....

A new mystery featuring the complex and fascinating London policeman John Coffin finds Coffin investigating the apparently accidental deaths of two of his officers....

Student Amy Dean has disappeared with her boyfriend Martin - a year after Martin's former girlfriend Virginia was found beaten to death....

Inspector Coffin decides to investigate some strange goings-on on Murder Street - the most violent street in town - when a man who thrives on reporting and even predicting murder disappears himself....

Detective John Coffin must find out who killed the man belonging to the severed human head found in an urn on the church steps....

It is 1978 and senior police John Coffin has been drafted back to South London to oversee the Local Detective branch....

Scotland Yard's eminent Detective John Coffin was a mere sergeant. Anticipating a promotion, he buys a house that needs repairs and proves a catalyst to dire events....

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....

British writer Butler has crafted a grim tale that unsuccessfully blends murder with social commentary. In 1946, newly promoted detective-constable John Coffin arrives in Greenwich to take up his post....