A Coffin for Charley - Hardcover

Butler, Gwendoline

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312114664 ISBN 13: 9780312114664

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1994

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A series of strange murders, the disappearance of his niece, and a troubling threat to his new wife Stella become the ingredients to a new suspenseful mystery for London's Commander John Coffin.

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SOMEONE IS WATCHING YOU...MURDER AND OBSESSION STALK THE STREETS OF THE SECOND CITY OF LONDON.

Annie Briggs, whose evidence as a child was responsible for convicting two killers, feels a vague sense of unease and fears she is being watched. She then discovers that the murderers have been released and are living nearby. Annie dreads the revenge she knows will come.

But another killer is already walking the streets, cunning inventive – almost a shape-changer. It looks as though the Second City of London is harbouring a serial killer – a killer the police think is called Charley.

Is Charley the one John Coffin, Chief Commander of London's Second City, must stop? And who is Charley...what is Charley?

‘Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart...she achieves that real whodunit pull’
THE TIMES

About the Author:

Gwendoline Butler was born and brought up in south London and was one of the most universally praised of English mystery authors. Her John Coffin procedural series features the titular police inspector rising through the ranks to Commissioner in London's Docklands area in the 1960s/70s, and eventually moving to a fictional Second City of London.

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