Coffin's Dark Number
Published on 12. June 2014
224 pages
978-0-00-754465-3 (ISBN)
Description
Three little girls are reported missing in the same district of South London and Superintendent John Coffin suspects there could be more. A gripping crime novel from one of the most universally praised English mystery writers, perfect for fans of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers.
Three little girls have been reported missing recently in the same district of South London and Superintendent John Coffin believes there might be others.
The area has more than its fair share of cranks, and Tony Young's club of UFO watchers is no exception. But Tony's concerns start to grow as more children disappear, always at a time when members of the club are out investigating a sighting.
While Coffin probes the backgrounds of the victims, trying to establish a pattern, Tony takes matters into his own hands and does some detecting of his own...
Three little girls have been reported missing recently in the same district of South London and Superintendent John Coffin believes there might be others.
The area has more than its fair share of cranks, and Tony Young's club of UFO watchers is no exception. But Tony's concerns start to grow as more children disappear, always at a time when members of the club are out investigating a sighting.
While Coffin probes the backgrounds of the victims, trying to establish a pattern, Tony takes matters into his own hands and does some detecting of his own...
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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Edition
Digital original
Language
English
Place of publication
United Kingdom
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
File size
0,57 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-00-754465-3 (9780007544653)
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Person
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.
