Coffin and the Paper Man
Published on 12. June 2014
208 pages
978-0-00-754470-7 (ISBN)
Description
A young girl's body is discovered in an alleyway in London's Docklands, brutally murdered. Police chief commander John Coffin investigates. From one of the most universally praised English crime writers, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie.
A young girl's body is discovered in an alleyway in London's Docklands. The brutal murder polarizes the inhabitants of the newly gentrified neighbourhood under the jurisdiction of police chief commander John Coffin.
Coffin receives a series of notes from 'the Paper Man' promising more bodies if the young girl's killer isn't caught. As the case goes unsolved, more bodies turn up, and now Coffin must deal with escalating neighbourhood turmoil, while unravelling a complex sequence of events to find two killers...
A young girl's body is discovered in an alleyway in London's Docklands. The brutal murder polarizes the inhabitants of the newly gentrified neighbourhood under the jurisdiction of police chief commander John Coffin.
Coffin receives a series of notes from 'the Paper Man' promising more bodies if the young girl's killer isn't caught. As the case goes unsolved, more bodies turn up, and now Coffin must deal with escalating neighbourhood turmoil, while unravelling a complex sequence of events to find two killers...
Reviews / Votes
'Gwendoline Butler is excellent on the bizarre fantasies of other people's lives and on modern paranoia overlaying old secrets; and her plots have the rare ability to shock'Andrew Taylor, Independent
'Butler distils her own brand of disquiet: omnipresent and irresistible' Sunday Times
'Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart... she achieves that real whodunit pull' The Times
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ePub edition
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
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Reflowable
File size
0,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-754470-7 (9780007544707)
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Gwendoline Butler
Coffin and the Paper Man
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07/1991
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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.
