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John Coffin

John Coffin Series
The leading detective in the first three stories was an Inspector Winter. He appeared too in the fourth story ‘The Dull Dead’ (1958) but by this time the young John Coffin (described as “mercurial”) had made his first appearance, and it was with Coffin that Gwendoline Butler continued. 

There was a quantum leap for John Coffin, in 1989. Starting with the book ‘Coffin in the Black Museum’ his creator took him from south London across the Thames and planted him in east London, in an imaginary district that was obviously based on Docklands.

There are total of 34 books in the John Coffin Series.

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cover Title: Cracking Open A Coffin Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1434
cover Title: Coffin In The Museum Of Crime Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1462
cover Title: Death Lives Next Door Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1486
cover Title: Coffin On Murder Street Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1519
cover Title: Coffin And The Paper Man Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1578
cover Title: A Coffin For Charley Authors: Gwendoline Butler Rating: 0 Hits: 1732
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

William Faulkner

William Faulkner

“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Reading brings us unknown friends”

Honore de Balzac

Honore de Balzac

“When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.”

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf

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