This is the first book I've read by this author and it won't be the last as I thought it was well written with interesting characters and a complex plot. It is part of a series featuring John Coffin but it can be read as a standalone novel as it seems the reader does not get to hear too much abo...
Dine and Be Dead, originally published as Death Lives Next Door (1960), is the sixth mystery in Gwendoline Butler's John Coffin series--but it takes the reader back in time to Inspector Coffin's first case. It also takes us to the highly academic setting of Oxford for a little murder and psycholo...
Two young detectives die in apparent accidents but John Coffin is not satisfied with that verdict especially when the widow of one of the detectives appears to have committed suicide on a bonfire. The detectives were both involved in investigating money laundering and he wonders whether they go...