Coffin's Game

by Gwendoline Butler

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  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 Crime Writers’ Association’s Silver Dagger.

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

  AUTHOR’S NOTE

  One evening in April 1988, I sat in Toynbee Hall in the East End of London, near to Docklands, listening to Doctor 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.

  ALSO BY THE AUTHOR

  A Double Coffin

  A Dark Coffin

  The Coffin Tree

  A Coffin for Charley

  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 Baby

  Death Lives Next Door

  The Interloper

  The Murdering Kind

  The Dull Dead

  Coffin in Oxford

  Receipt for Murder

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