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Description for Cold Coffin
paperback. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
London's Second City has been the scene of many a terrifying crime, but the discovery of a pile of infant skulls unearthed near police headquarters is particularly horrifying. Another major worry for John Coffin, Chief Commander, is a triple murder on his patch, that of a midwife and her two daughters. The obvious suspect is her son, Black Jack Jackson, a local villain, but both Coffin and DI Phoebe Astley are reluctant to accept his guilt. Two further murders add renewed urgency to both investigations: one of a doctor, discovered in a hospital laboratory surrounded by grisly trophies, might ... Read more
London's Second City has been the scene of many a terrifying crime, but the discovery of a pile of infant skulls unearthed near police headquarters is particularly horrifying. Another major worry for John Coffin, Chief Commander, is a triple murder on his patch, that of a midwife and her two daughters. The obvious suspect is her son, Black Jack Jackson, a local villain, but both Coffin and DI Phoebe Astley are reluctant to accept his guilt. Two further murders add renewed urgency to both investigations: one of a doctor, discovered in a hospital laboratory surrounded by grisly trophies, might ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1900
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780007106448
SKU
KKD0005504
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Paperback
Gwendoline Butler is a Londoner, born in a part of South London for which she still has a great affection. She was educated at Haberdashers and then read history at Oxford. She now spends her time travelling, looking at pictures, and - of course - writing.
Reviews for Cold Coffin
'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 'Gwendoline Butler writes detective novels that both in method and atmosphere are things apart she achieves that real whodunit pull' The Times