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THE COFFIN TREE

CRACKING OPEN A COFFIN

COFFIN ON MURDER STREET

COFFIN AND THE PAPER MAN

COFFIN IN THE BLACK MUSEUM

COFFIN UNDERGROUND

COFFIN IN FASHION

COFFIN ON THE WATER

A COFFIN FOR THE CANARY

A COFFIN FOR PANDORA

A COFFIN FROM THE PAST

COFFIN'S DARK NUMBER

COFFIN FOLLOWING

COFFIN IN MALTA

A NAMELESS COFFIN

COFFIN WAITING

A COFFIN FOR THE BABY

DEATH LIVES NEXT DOOR

THE INTERLOPER

THE MURDERING KIND

THE DULL DEAD

COFFIN IN OXFORD

RECEIPT FOR MURDER

AUTHOR'S NOTE

One evening in April, 1988, I sat in the Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, near to Dockland, listening to Dr David Owen (now Lord Owen) give that year's Barnett Memorial Lecture. In it, he suggested the creation of a Second City of London, to be spun off from the first, to aid the economic and social regeneration of the Docklands.

The idea fascinated me and I have made use of it to create a world for detective John Coffin, to whom I gave the tricky task of keeping there the Queen's Peace.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Gwendoline Butler is a Londoner, born in a part of South London for which she still has a tremendous affection. She was educated at Haberdashers and then read history at Oxford. After a short period doing research and teaching, she married the late Dr Lionel Butler, Principal of Royal Holloway College. She has one daughter.

Gwendoline Butler's crime novels are very popular in Britain and the States, and her many awards include the CWA's Silver Dagger.

When she isn't writing, she spends her time travelling and looking at pictures, furniture and buildings.